Glorior Belli is a relatively new band that started out in some dodgy times. It was the year 2005 and their debut album seemed to me more or less like a copy of Deathspell Omegas, at the time, current full length that sort of shaped the future of (at least) French scene. In all honesty I didn't think much of it at the time and I avoided this band for quite a while. In 2007 they made another album which flew under my radar (apparently it's their best effort so far but I can't seem to remember how it even sounds) simply because there were far more interesting things to listen in that year. 2007 was a very fruitful year for metal.
Then came their third album in 2009. I was intrigued by the name since it wasn't the usual devil worship gibberish so I checked it out. Finally on this album the band tried something different! This was something that actually gave them identity and a unique sound. They took the concept of blues and sort of merged it with black metal. Musically it resembles blues but it still is largely based on black metal. Good black metal and great mixture of raspy yet clean vocals. It's an interesting take on black metal and music itself. Blues and black metal isn't something people generally mix together and this came out really great and innovative.
Certainly worth a listen or two even if your aren't much into back metal.
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In every grief stricken blues.
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Black metal has negriod music roots, as said sir Varg long time ago, and this G.B.'s album just proved it.
ReplyDeleteThe alternate term from so called "black metal" is blues metal aka BM.
Varg talks a lot of nonsense. I don't see any connection with blues and black metal anywhere except on this album. It's simply not part of the black metal mythology nor it has any similarities in song compositions.
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