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 Elgibbor – Apolutrosis
Next to the ‘known’ Black metal bands, such as Antestor and Crimson Moonlight, with clear production and a good line-up, there is a Black metal movement that strives for a dark and raw sound. Good production is seen as inferior to bad production, and one-man projects are common. This movement’s sound could be described as Old School Black metal, though they often refer to themselves as Unblack metal. I’ll go with the term Unblack here. Elgibbor is one of these bands, hailing from Poland. Actually, Elgibbor is a one-man project: guitars, synths, bass and drumcomputer are all done by Fire. Though an unknown guestmusician does the female clean vocals. Unlike many Unblack metal bands/projects, Elgibbor doesn’t strive for simple songs and bad production, Elgibbor is about its dark (and ‘grim’) atmosphere. Not about top-speed and unnatural fast drums, but rather slow and doomy songs. He definitaly succeeds at this. With the exception of the song Awesome God, which most of you’ll already know as a gospel or pop song (Michael W. Smith). Well, he made a Black metal version of it, with mainly female clean vocals. Sounds pretty nice, I always like metal versions of gospel songs, partly becayse of its fun. Yet it’s clearly the least dark song on this album. After Awesome God come some Polish songs, of which Miecz Nad Leviatanem nicely starts with acoustic guitars, synths and talking vocals. The CD ends with the English song Shadow of Death, which starts calmly with pianos, followed by a slow and dark song typical for this CD. Overall a decent CD, although I’m more fond of good production, but for fans of Unblack: I could definitaly recommend this CD. Cool side note: this is my first actual black CD (the side with the music, not the upper side).
Review by Max (February 21 - 2005)
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