Skepticism
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Drudkh's 'Blood in Our Wells' - Overrated or Not?
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MasterOLightning
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I would rate the albums
Forgotten Legends 10/10 (or close to it)
Autumn Aurora 7.5/10
Swan Road 6.5/10
Blood In Our Wells 9/10
Forgotten Legends 10/10 (or close to it)
Autumn Aurora 7.5/10
Swan Road 6.5/10
Blood In Our Wells 9/10
I have loved drudkh for ages, but all of the sudden they became very famous. I think people overrate thhem, however AA is my favorite metal album of all time.
/is a drudkh whore
/is a drudkh whore
BloodSword
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Drudkh's Forgotten Legends, Autumn Aurora and Blood in our Wells are the best from their cataloque. Swan Road so/so. Songs of Grief and Solitude is lazy and uninspired. Anti-Urban is just completely fuckin' pointless. Can only hope that "Estrangement" puts them back on track. Of course, this is just my opinion.
MasterOLightning
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Death Aflame
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Forgotten Legends is an amazing work. Blood in our Wells is good, but doesn't quite reach the dizzying heights of the debut. I haven't heard any other material from the band though so I guess I should get on that. Also, how is the acoustic album?
Hubster
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Well let's put it this way (aside from the fact that Drudkh is one of the best post-Burzum Black Metal bands there is). Can you think of any other album in a similar style to Blood In Our Wells, released in 2006, which is better?
Demilich
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Songs of Grief and Solitude is pretty great. I'm convinced that a lot of people who put it down have no idea what they're listening to at all.
Hubster
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^ Man, that's one of the best posts I've seen in ages. Thank GOD someone else is seeing the light. +10 to you 
Songs of Grief and Solitude is just as brilliant and as important as the rest of their works.
Songs of Grief and Solitude is just as brilliant and as important as the rest of their works.
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MasterOLightning
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It sounds very different from any previous release. There aren't really any keys that I could hear. The riffing is slower and darker, and the folk elements are more subdued. The songs are also simpler, with two riffs per song.
Hubster
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Agreed. I've been hammering it. I do hope though, that the vocals are a little higher in the mix, I really love Roman Saenko's vocal style, it's totally unique and on the Swan Road & Blood In Our Wells, his vocals are extremely impressive.
MasterOLightning
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I thought it was interesting that he went back to the Hate Forest style for vocals. It fit the dark atmosphere well though.
KevenZ
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Thurios (Astrofaes) is singing for Drudkh......i think the only album Saenko's voice can be heard is on Swan Road.
Saenko's voice is much more death metal-ish..... like in Hate Forest.
MasterOLightning
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Is that so? Can you source this? I always thought it was the same guy in both. It's not impossible to do different styles of vocals after all.
Hubster
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Listen to some Hate Forest. Now go and listen to The Swan Road, tell me that the vocals are not done by the same one person.
Unless you have some way of confirming this, I'm not inclined to believe you. Upload a Astrofaes for us as an example so we can listen.
KevenZ
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you've never heard Astrofaes before? shame on you...
Thurios (Astrofaes) (2004)
Saenko (Hate Forest) (2005)
PS. both Thurios and Saenko are singing at the end of Cold from the Grave, there you can hear the difference.
Thurios (Astrofaes) (2004)
Saenko (Hate Forest) (2005)
PS. both Thurios and Saenko are singing at the end of Cold from the Grave, there you can hear the difference.
swizzlenuts
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^ Man, that's one of the best posts I've seen in ages. Thank GOD someone else is seeing the light. +10 to you
Songs of Grief and Solitude is just as brilliant and as important as the rest of their works.
Shut the fuck up Hubster. It's not even close to be as brilliant as Forgotten legends. That being said, the album is good and has a lot of great ideas, but it's just solid Drudkh put into a folk atmosphere; moreover, I like it quite a bit actually, especially how they use melodies, which are more prolific compared to the black metal material. They actually did this in Fallen into Oblivion too, and did a damn good job at it.
Anti-Urban is good, quite good, but I'm kind of weary how it'd turn out in a full length. Unless they build off of where Ashes was going, and keep Fallen into Oblivion as an opener or something. I'm confident that the new Drudkh will be good.
