Metal Reviews

La Rumeur des Chaînes (The Murmur of Chains) is our first studio-based musical project.
The CD includes three songs and lasts about 30 min, with influences ranging from black metal to romantic music or jazz, but trying to stay open minded and far from the usual clichés. We hope that everybody who doesn’t have any problem with extreme music will be interested!


http://caer-ibormeith.homelinux.net/rumeur/la_rumeur_des_chaines_02_erytheme.mp3

All the songs are available on our website in 192kbps MP3s, but, if interested to get the CD with full artwork, you can send us an email at contact@ink-and-feather.com

it's original, i'll give you that!

but the mix sounded a bit forced to me (especially the jazz parts).... the song is a bit too long too, the ending is great though.


would i buy the mini-cd? probably not..

good luck with your future endeavours

Interesting... You want to get some live Jazz musicians in, especially for the horn parts. Some bits sound way too synthed at the moment. Believe me that would probably make it sound 10 times better...

But actually this is very good.

Yea this kicks serious ass! I love it!
The jazz part in the beginning of the song is so innovative, really havent heard anything like this before!

Good fucking job!

We do! We only did the best we could do without real musicians :?

Man, you did a good job! If you can sort it out it would definitely be worth the effort... :twisted:

EDIT: I might add it's a lot better than what most people would come up with using the same resources, so don't think I'm being overly negatvie or anything

It's highly experimental music, which is good by itself, as too much music sounds the same. The artwork is brilliant by the way, the cover looks neat! It's pretty well written as well, which is very hard when doing such experimental music. There are some very clever moments in the music, but I also think some of the riffs could have been better. I like it that you chose to also use both styles at the same time, rather than just variate between them. The music blends quite well together, but I think the atmospheres tend to clash a little, resulting in the lack of a strong mood. I suggest using more emotional BM styled riffs, which will fit the Jazz part better than the more traditional riffs. What are your favorite black metal bands by the way? The scene is quite large and I do not know how deep are you in. Some more underground streams use very powerful moods in their black metal which I think whould be a good influence for the music you create.

Anyways, it's good to see you are experimenting with different genres. I hope you keep us informed, this is a board with a collective rather openminded view, though with loads of black metal elitist fucks, like me (I know it contradicts), and therefore it's the ideal board for discussing your music.

Keep up the good work and us informed!

Hails!

@rio: No problem, I haven't taken it in a bad way!

@Gast1: Thanks for the analysis! The point with Erytheme was deliberately to create something new, using jazz instrumentation more than jazz music influence (which I only have a small knowledge), in a grotesque way.
You'll probably find something closer from BM moods in the two other songs, where classical music is more present.
Anyway, it's nice to get such a welcome, and I'd be very interested in the "BM underground streams" you suggest us

Yes, although I also liked the jazz influence a lot! But the other songs might be more solidly executed. Some parts reminded me of Furia (French heavy blackish something metal band). The BM underground streams might be worded a bit silly, I really have no clue what you listen to, so maybe you already heard everything I'm going to suggest now, but maybe you don't. Anyways:

Mystic Forest - Romances
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mysticforest/my ... Parler.mp3
Moody black metal with neoclassical/baroque influences

Woods Of Ypres – Against The Seasons
http://www.myspace.com/woodsofypres
Melancholic nature oriented black metal

Forest Of Fog – Rabenflug & Nebelhymnen
http://www.forestoffog.ch.vu/
Click "Musik" to be directed to the samples and songs.
Melancholic nature oriented black metal

Klabautamann – Our Journey Through The Woods & Der Ort
http://www.surt.de/klabautamann/home.php
Hit the mp3 section.
Avant-garde-ish melancholic nature oriented black metal

Odium Immortalis – Die Schönheid Der Einsamkeit
http://gedankendichte.de/odium/mp3/Odiu ... chheit.mp3
http://gedankendichte.de/odium/mp3/Odiu ... keit-A.mp3
Melancholic nature oriented black metal

Taake - Nattestid
hxxp://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3EDV ... PO0SCA6E9I
Change hxxp to http
True black metal

Darkspace – Darkspace
http://www.darkcyberspace.com/dark_-1_-1.mp3
Atmospheric raw black metal (space atmosphere)

Velvet Cacoon – Genevieve
http://www.velvetcacoon.com/mp3/06-gene ... al_version).mp3
Ambient raw black metal

Aichmophoba – Demo 2005
http://www.aichmophoba.de/demo05/Aichmo ... 20noch.mp3
Depressive raw black metal

This is all taken from my post on another topic, there is lots of very popular stuff in as well, bordering mainstream, but you'll get the idea I hope.

mystic forest kicks ass!

... meeh... i hate Jazzz :cry: ... i can listen to some of it from the black metal part, 2 mins into the song, nice.. but still.. i hate trumpets... you just need a tuba to make things worse for me... okay, i admit i have no knowlegde how tromphets and such instruments sounds like ( i do like some of the instruments of those type), but i sure do hate tuba's and trumpets ...

to quote Azrael:

After two months, we are already out of stock concerning the EP. Thanks to everybody who supported us!

We can't give any date for a next release, so, if you haven't done it yet, keep on going with mp3s on our pages.
NB: If you are working for a magazine and want the CD to be reviewed, we still can send you the layout, just mail us!

This is awesome stuff! Definately keep us up to date with it!

hey, dear mods

move this to the "Promote Your Band" section

dloaded it yesterday, not listened yet but if Zad thinks it's awesome I have doubts.... :?

It's good! The guy may be a stupid idiot, but he's right about this!

Insulting like this Zad is going to make things even worse.

Anyway this stuff is good but i checked it like 2 months ago and from that time there are no other songs available for download...

:shock:

We're not a factory! These 3 songs took us 3 years to be created. But as soon as there's something new, I'll let you know

HeHe ok!

Hello! The new batch of La Rumeur des Chaines CDs is now ready to be issued. If you're interested, you can read how to get the EP on our webpage.
http://www.ink-and-feather.com

Thanks