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Band - Elffor
Title - From the Throne of Hate
Label - Self Released
Format - Unknown
Download Format: MP3/Quality: 256KBPS/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Year - 2004
Genre - Atmospheric Black Metal/Pagan Folk
Country - Spain

TrackList:

01. Old 7:39
02. Rare Woods 5:54
03. My Hateful End 5:00
04. Echoes Of The Past 4:09
05. Upon The Barbarian Woods 5:39
06. Grimmest Winternights 7:32
07. The Essence Of Hate 4:31
08. Wicked Shadows 5:09

Three self financed albums deep into his solo project, Eol returns in 2004 with a new album titled ‘From the Throne of Hate.’ Just like his previous effort ’Son of the Shades’ Eol once again delivers a splendid album of ambient, folk, medieval, pagan, and black metal influenced music. The last album was his first to really introduce the metal influences and they were still somewhat minimal, and the less than stellar production made the riffs hard to decipher. Fortunately things have changed on From the Throne of Hate since the production is considerably better, the guitar riffs are actually hearable, and its seems Eol has taken the band sounds more in the vein of Summoning, while of course still keeping Elffor’s old sound intact. The music is still largely keyboard based while the drums and guitars take more of a backseat approach, but are still easily heard and are not overpowered too much by the keyboards. Eol’s vocals remain the same standard black metal screams with somewhat of a Burzum-ish touch to them at times, and the clean vocals are somewhat absent from the album. So besides the metal influences becoming more apparent in his music not much has changed with Elffor.

What I do really enjoy about this release though is the dark synths, folk, and medieval music, which is seamlessly integrated into these songs. The folk and medieval moments are very beautiful, the keyboards are dark and epic sounding, and with the music becoming more black metal influenced you can bet your ass this is one hell of an album. In particular I like ‘Upon the Barbarian Woods,’ which features some of his best keyboard work and towards the middle of the song you can hear a strong early Emperor influence. ‘Echoes of the Past’ & ‘Wicked Shadows’ are also very medieval epic keyboard pieces, which sound just fantastic. Also ‘My Hateful End’ is probably the most metal sounding song on the album opening with fast double bass drumming, guitar, vile screams, and dark atmospheric synths.

All in all a very strong release, which will definitely appeal to the Summoning fans, but also for those that just enjoy heavily keyboard driven atmospheric black metal. To bad for you though since this release has already sold out. Maybe someday someone will notice this incredible band...

Review by JJM

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