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However, they managed to sacrifice their weightiest riffs, which certainly would have been welcome as those were my favorite moments from previous albums. On this album Mael Mordha sound more like Primordial than ever before, but less in an imitative way than in the exercise of a genuine, recognizable style. But I can't stop listening to this, and after repeated plays I really think it might be their best work. The more I think about it, though, the more the changes that come into play on Manannan make sense. Best viewed without Internet Explorer, in x resolution or higher. There are a few moments that really catch your ear, though, such as the percussion avalanche that kicks the album off.

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On the title track, the whistle plays a nice melody alongside a mournful guitar solo, showing that the band has come a long way in learning how to intertwine the folk and metal elements of their sound into something more cohesive than ever before. Bands alphabetical country genre Labels alphabetical country Reviews R. As usual for the band, the drums provide more than a backdrop than anything else.

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However, they managed to sacrifice their weightiest riffs, which certainly would have been welcome as those were my favorite moments from previous albums. Vocalist Roibeard O Bogail is off morhda charts on this album, as his performance is so raw it's on the edge of losing control, but just when you swear he has gone off-key he clicks right back where he should be and proves that he knows exactly what he is doing at every moment.

It's a fairly common thing for a band to settle into a certain style after a bit of early-career experimentation. That said, the more traditional folk instruments are still around, perhaps even more prevalent than ever before and are incorporated better into the actual music, rather than serving as sort of peripheral elements.

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On Manannanhowever, there are distinctly black-metal sounding riffs for the first time. After this point, there kael not really a moment of the album that is not flat-out awesome, and repeated listens just serve to deepen the experience.

I had high, high hopes for this, and on first spin I thought the band had slipped a bit further.

The band's music melds doom metal with Irish folk music to create what has been referred to as "Gaelic doom metal". The good news is that this new sort of style which isn't really a major departure, but is definitely a change of pace tends to replace the less interesting sorts of songs from previous albums. I'm not talking about ice-pick tremolo lines in the vein of Transilvanian Hunger nor am I talking about punishing riff assaults a la early Beherit.

At first blush the guitar sound here is less heavy and pummeling than on previous works, and I think the lack of downtuning was undertaken to give their music more sweep in the vein of that greatest of Irish bands, Primordial. Originally written for www. Check date values in: They're still nice and crunchy, but nowhere near as bone-grinding as they were on previous releases. I suppose this tone might've been chosen on purpose as it likely works better for those blackened folk parts I mentioned earlier, but the heavier doom maannnan feel a bit anemic.

This page was last edited on 5 Octoberat However, songs like "Our Ancestors Dwell Mananan have a sort of pretty, blackened melodicism you'd expect out of a band like Falkenbach.

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To sum up, the band's songwriting has generally gotten more Primordial-ish but male the process has gotten more consistent.

What they play is a powerful, epic style of heavy metal infused with melodies and flourishes from Celtic music. There's no "Cluain Tarbh" on this album, which is darn unfortunate.

Actually, I'd go so far as to say that exceptions to this morhda are fairly rare, discounting the usual late-career tomfoolery that befalls so many once-great bands.

The "doom" part in their description was always a bit iffy, mannnan Mael Mordha have never really been a doom band. Doomy, genuinely passionately Celtic and broadly epic in scope, "Gealtacht At last we get the new one from the mighty Mael Mordha, three years after "Gealtacht Mael Mordha" proved something of a small step down from the brilliance of their debut.

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On this album Mael Mordha sound more like Primordial than ever before, but less in an imitative way than in the exercise of a genuine, recognizable style.

Retrieved 23 June Mael Mordha have sacrificed a bit of their visceral punch for texture and layer, and it has paid off enormously. It's not a scream or a growl, but sort of throaty bellow that fits perfectly with the more aggressive riffs on Manannan. With "Manannan", the band has stepped beyond a simple genre band and achieved real art.

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