Swiss legends Mordor put out their first new material in God knows how long and it’s really quite something.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMartial beats, synthetic fanfares, generally symphonic pomp heavy on the brass section, overwhelmingly campy marching music crooning dripping with pathos, all with Mordor’s signature spine-chilling guitar tone cutting through it all, it is just so perfect and completely infectuous. The kind of song you could listen to a thousand times and never get bored of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThus of Mordor, ignoble individuals handling Black Metal, Funeral Doom by letting it macerate in a Dark Ambient Industrial juice. You are told of people who are not good ones to meet ! \u201cIn my opinion Mordor are a very great sounding experimental mixture of black, funeral doom metal, industrial and ambient and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis split is clearly the work of two bands that both have singular visions of how extreme music should be and for that reason, it is very engaging, though still a hard listen. Fans of the previous work of both Bunkur and Mordor, as well as that of Nuclear War Now! Productions will enjoy this for sure. Less adventurous metal fans might not.\u201d \u201cMordor sits well beyond the shadow of Pluto on the very edge of the sun\u2019s orbit, not through blast beats and unrelenting distortion, but through being nightmarishly creepy. Enough familiar features of music are dangled before the listener only to be distorted, disfigured, mutilated. Like rewriting a child\u2019s dreams and fantasies, turning them into something beyond fear. Maybe I didn\u2019t talk it up enough in the above analysis, because as music it seems to rearrange your psyche at the sub-atomic level. I\u2019ll let you decide if that\u2019s a recommendation or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c…Recommended for those who love to investigate the origins of the funeral doom metal sound and who crave the lo-fi errancy of the metal underground…\u201d metal-archives.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nFR\/ENG Review – L’accro du Scribe – MORDOR\/BUNKUR SPLIT – 2017 NUCLEAR WAR NOW – Torture DOOM Drone DARK Ambient FUNERAL DOOM \n<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
These henchmen from Sauron and Saruman took the basis of Venom’s \u00ab\u00a0In League With Satan\u00a0\u00bb, the emblematic track from their first album \u00ab\u00a0Welcome To Hell\u00a0\u00bb in 1981 and inserted it into a filthy music putrefaction machine from which it emerged as an unidentified object of martial and ambient music, with some hints of Laibach’s friends on an old Funeral Doom background in the cemeteries… \u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nwww.webzinelescribedurock.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nReview of the split Bunkur\/Mordor released by Nuclear War Now! in 2017\/2018, by Blackened Death Metal Zine.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
bringerofdeathzine.blogspot.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nReview by This Noise is Ours of the split Bunkur\/Mordor released in 2017\/18 by Nuclear War Now!\n<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
In reply to a comment, we renamed Venom’s song \u201cIn League with Satan\u201d as \u201cIn League with Wotan\u201d for several reasons:
1.This is not merely a cover, but a re-creation deconstructing the original structure and foundational building blocks of the track to create an extended composition with additional sections, and a new narrative based on \u00d3\u00f0inn’s gnostic quest of knowledge, such as his ordeal mentioned in the Eddic poem H\u00e1vam\u00e1l leading him to the seizing of the runes.
2. Reference is made to Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen<\/em> in our piece, with for instance the use in a musical part of a leitmotif taken from his monumental Tetralogy. For reasons of assonance with Venom’s title, \u201cWotan\u201d, one of the leading characters in the opera cycle, was preferred to \u201cOdin\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\nthisnoiseisours.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMordor turn Venom’s \u201cIn League With Satan\u201d from a punchy fucked up rocker to a tortured doom metal epic that will make you question your sanity, even going so far as to redub it \u201cIn League With Wotan\u201d .<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
twoguysmetalreviews.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nRave review in French of the split Bunkur\/Mordor released by Nuclear War Now!, by Hans Cany for the webzine REQUIEM : Dark Music, Arts & Culture.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
requiemwebzine.blogspot.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nA very pertinent comparative review of Mordor’s Csejthe<\/em> (1992) and Von’s Satanic Blood<\/em> (1992) by Hate Meditations, \u201carmchair rhetoric on extreme metal\u201d. There are also other valuable comparative reviews and meditations on extreme metal which are worth reading. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
hatemeditations.wordpress.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n2 great reviews of ODES on metalmusicarchives\n<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe atmospheric dark ambience also brings Burzum\u2019s later work to mind but these three tracks are far more devastating to the human psyche than anything Varg Vikernes could ever conjure up…\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nmetalmusicarchives.com<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"