from SilentScream webzine:
Four songs, over 53 minutes of music. This simple consideration should make us approach the music of this rumanian trio with a certain curiosity. Negura Bunget are not an apprentice band, since before this "'N Crugu Bradului" had already released two albums and a mini album. But the chance Code666 offers will allow the band to spread its name furtherly reaching a wide audience. The music of the band is a rather evolved and original black metal that takes at full hands from the folk tradition of their country, but also from progressive solutions. In short, Negura Bunget offer (like themselves say) some "Transilvanian Spirituality's Music", that's not the usual pagan black metal at full throttle that tells about past warriors stories, but rather an original mixture of different influences, mixed and merged with care and a relevant artistical cleverness. Don't be afraid of over ten minutes long songs, because the high craft Negura Bunget put in their compositions allows no listener to get bored: the attention is kept alive by the continuous mood and tempo changes. The conceptual development is highly kept in consideration by the band, that with this work creates a sort of long concept: "'N Crugu Bradului" is a fantastic and spiritual trip across the conflict temporality - atemporality lived by a sheperd, himself symbol of the contrast between animal and man, between reality and fantasy, that stares at the wonders characterizing the four seasons, represented by the four "movements", almost it was a classical opera, the cd is divided into. Well, we're in front of a relevant opera, widely developed not only conceptually, but also musically. A bet, like Code666 like defining it, that seems abundantly won from the start.
rate: 8
(Giorgio Fogliata)
Four songs, over 53 minutes of music. This simple consideration should make us approach the music of this rumanian trio with a certain curiosity. Negura Bunget are not an apprentice band, since before this "'N Crugu Bradului" had already released two albums and a mini album. But the chance Code666 offers will allow the band to spread its name furtherly reaching a wide audience. The music of the band is a rather evolved and original black metal that takes at full hands from the folk tradition of their country, but also from progressive solutions. In short, Negura Bunget offer (like themselves say) some "Transilvanian Spirituality's Music", that's not the usual pagan black metal at full throttle that tells about past warriors stories, but rather an original mixture of different influences, mixed and merged with care and a relevant artistical cleverness. Don't be afraid of over ten minutes long songs, because the high craft Negura Bunget put in their compositions allows no listener to get bored: the attention is kept alive by the continuous mood and tempo changes. The conceptual development is highly kept in consideration by the band, that with this work creates a sort of long concept: "'N Crugu Bradului" is a fantastic and spiritual trip across the conflict temporality - atemporality lived by a sheperd, himself symbol of the contrast between animal and man, between reality and fantasy, that stares at the wonders characterizing the four seasons, represented by the four "movements", almost it was a classical opera, the cd is divided into. Well, we're in front of a relevant opera, widely developed not only conceptually, but also musically. A bet, like Code666 like defining it, that seems abundantly won from the start.
rate: 8
(Giorgio Fogliata)