SvH
05-02-2010, 12:19
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ri.go.ri.sm (rig′ər iz′əm) = strictness or severity, as in religion, moral code, artistic style, etc.
Meta apo ena arketa diadedomeno "Of Entropy And Life Denial" panw stis rages tou ορθόδοξου "thelw na akoustw toso Watain pou to kanw kalutera , telika" BM , oi galloi Merrimack epistrefoun me enan uper-skeptomeno disko . Xwris myspace Hit-akia kai polles kordeles , me toso strifno periexomeno pou kourazei apeutheias ton meso bm akroath o opoios to katevase trexontas meta thn :/googlesearch/:blackmetal/french/antaeus/similar/orthodox/watain/ekklhsiameolighapomarduk diadikasia. Parathetw kritikes pou mou aresan , diafwnouses ή μη.
...Albums like these often cause me to reflect upon cliché assessments such as “par for the course” and “by the numbers”. Albums that tend to perfectly reflect all of what makes a genre unique and strong, yet being safe and predictable enough to warrant nothing more than a measured and polite vote of approval. There’s not much adventurism to this music despite the variety, it gets the job done and then sort of keeps any further thoughts on the matter to itself.Nothing in Merrimack’s arsenal of black metal weapons is lacking, from the esoterically heathenish song titles to the woeful mixture of saddened minor keys mixed with measured yet very ugly dissonances. The production is relatively clear by the genre’s standards, and seems to conform more to the current practices of the surviving adherents to the early 90s Norwegian scene....
metal-observer.com
......As cruel as they are mysterious, as progressive as they are explosively intense, this band offers its third album, firmly placing them amongst the French black metal elite....
theomegaorder.com
....This scribe and several other more BM-inclined writers bought into Merrimack’s 2006 effort, Of Entropy and Life Denial and who wouldn’t have? In terms of primal, yet hardly dated BM, Merrimack shot the gap with a batch of sticky, memorable songs with just a touch of melody to prop it above its contemporaries. Now, the French BM-mongers return with the slightly less than impressive, Grey Rigorism.Although Merrimack is slightly more adept at putting together a string of frenzied, yet catchy songs like “Omniabsence,” “Kirjath-Ra” and “La Saintete du Mal,” all of which comprise the meat of the album. This trio of songs goes from groove-oriented (“Omniabsence”) to all-out blast-attack (“Kirjath-Ra”) to atmospheric (“La Santete du Mal”)....
blistering.com
www.myspace.com/merrimackofficial
ri.go.ri.sm (rig′ər iz′əm) = strictness or severity, as in religion, moral code, artistic style, etc.
Meta apo ena arketa diadedomeno "Of Entropy And Life Denial" panw stis rages tou ορθόδοξου "thelw na akoustw toso Watain pou to kanw kalutera , telika" BM , oi galloi Merrimack epistrefoun me enan uper-skeptomeno disko . Xwris myspace Hit-akia kai polles kordeles , me toso strifno periexomeno pou kourazei apeutheias ton meso bm akroath o opoios to katevase trexontas meta thn :/googlesearch/:blackmetal/french/antaeus/similar/orthodox/watain/ekklhsiameolighapomarduk diadikasia. Parathetw kritikes pou mou aresan , diafwnouses ή μη.
...Albums like these often cause me to reflect upon cliché assessments such as “par for the course” and “by the numbers”. Albums that tend to perfectly reflect all of what makes a genre unique and strong, yet being safe and predictable enough to warrant nothing more than a measured and polite vote of approval. There’s not much adventurism to this music despite the variety, it gets the job done and then sort of keeps any further thoughts on the matter to itself.Nothing in Merrimack’s arsenal of black metal weapons is lacking, from the esoterically heathenish song titles to the woeful mixture of saddened minor keys mixed with measured yet very ugly dissonances. The production is relatively clear by the genre’s standards, and seems to conform more to the current practices of the surviving adherents to the early 90s Norwegian scene....
metal-observer.com
......As cruel as they are mysterious, as progressive as they are explosively intense, this band offers its third album, firmly placing them amongst the French black metal elite....
theomegaorder.com
....This scribe and several other more BM-inclined writers bought into Merrimack’s 2006 effort, Of Entropy and Life Denial and who wouldn’t have? In terms of primal, yet hardly dated BM, Merrimack shot the gap with a batch of sticky, memorable songs with just a touch of melody to prop it above its contemporaries. Now, the French BM-mongers return with the slightly less than impressive, Grey Rigorism.Although Merrimack is slightly more adept at putting together a string of frenzied, yet catchy songs like “Omniabsence,” “Kirjath-Ra” and “La Saintete du Mal,” all of which comprise the meat of the album. This trio of songs goes from groove-oriented (“Omniabsence”) to all-out blast-attack (“Kirjath-Ra”) to atmospheric (“La Santete du Mal”)....
blistering.com
www.myspace.com/merrimackofficial