Gunjah’s Musique Goblog

2005 "Pain Neccessary to Know"
    1. New Disorder
    2. Vector, Third Movement
    3. Pleonasm
    4. Few Stars, No Refrain and a Ciggarette
    5. Crystalline Whirl
    6. I Killed Rebecca
                            7. Vector
                            8. Vector, Second Movement
                            9. Imploding
 Davide Tiso - Guitars
Davide Piovesan - Drums
Fabio Fecchio - Bass
Lucio Lorusso - Vocals
Davide Tolomei - Vocals

Review:
I cant really reiew the album yet, but from the sample i heard sounds like ephel duath, if u know what i mean. will update once i get hold of the album(tough searching).

2003 "Painters Pallette"
Genre: Progressive Death Jazz, Crossover, Exreme Black Metal, Art Metal, Technical Math death, watever-u-want.
Label: Elitist/Earache
Total playing time: 46:33
    1. The Passage (Pearl Grey)
    2. The Unpoetic Circle (Bottle Green)
                             3. Labyrinthine (Crimson)
                             4. Praha (Ancient Gold)
                             5. The Picture (Bordeaux)
                             6. Ruins (Deep Blue And Violet)
                             7. Ironical Communion (Amber)
                             8. My Glassy Shelter (Dirty White)
                             9. The Other’s Touch (Amaranth)
Davide Tiso - Guitars
Davide Piovesan - Drums
Fabio Fecchio - Bass
Lucio Lorusso - Vocals
Davide Tolomei - Vocals

Review:

"The Painter’s Palette" is complex, insane and extremely progressive
and cannot be measured by usual standards. Here everything is thrown
over and put together anew and still you do not lose the focus in the
least. Here and there with some horn parts or some weird arrangements
your neck hair will stand up, but as the album goes by, these unusual
characteristics get more and more familiar. "The Unpoetic Circle", "The
Picture" or "My Glassy Shelter" are only three examples for the whole
album, showcasing which great feats this band is capable of. The intention of EPHEL DUATH is to give colour through their sounds or,
if you prefer, to play the sound of colours. Every song is depicted by
a different chromatic shade, where the listener’s mind becomes a
painting with infinite possibilities of sounds and colours, musical
tonalities and contrasting hues.- The Metal Observer

The best crossover’s i ‘ve heard. Awesomeness. If u are a weird freak, where weird unexpected sounds just raises ur hair, then this is for u. i dont expect u to accept this album right away, takes a few listens, then its in ur head, although the music is hard to decipher. the best album to listen as an introduction to ephel duath.

2002 "Rephormula"
Total Playing Time: 73:23
Label: Elitist/Earache
    1. Embossed

    2. The Greyness Grows Already Old

    3. Danza

    4. A Flickering Warmth

                             5. Myriad

                             6. Phormula

                             7. The Blow’s Rhymer

                             8. Insomnia’s Desert

                             9. Embossed (On The Corpse)" (Remix)

                            10. Instinkt" (Remix)

                            11. Opera I (Demo Tape "Opera")

                            12. Adulta Hieme: The Magnificence (Demo Tape "Opera")

                            13. Falling… (Demo Tape "Opera")

2000 "Phormula"

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Code666
Total Time: 42:33
    1. Embossed (3:54)
    2. The Greyness Grows Already Old (5:18)
    3. Danza (5:35)
                             4. A Flickering Warmth (6:26)
                             5. Myriad (2:13)
                             6. Pursuing the Instinct (7:12)
                             7. The Blow’s Rhymer (5:38)
                             8. Elapsed (6:17)

Davide Tiso - Guitars, Synth & Vocals
Giuliano Mogicato - Guitars, Synth & Vocals

Review:
If u listen to Dillinger, Cynic, Opeth, Emperor and a variety of old jazz
fusion bands, then ephel duath is exceedingly dense, highly layered and very
diffficult to get into. It’s also one of the few black metal albums
that truly manages to sound scary.
It’s extremely difficult to put the EPHEL DUATH-sound into words,
because once you get used to a certain direction, it suddenly performs
a 180-degree-turn and back again.

1998 "Opera" -Demo tape
Label: Independant
Genre: Black Metal
    1. Opera

    2. Adulta Hieme

    3. Falling

    4. Lost In The Mist Of Time

    5. Beneath The Smooth Veil Of Shadows

                       6. *

Davide Tiso - Guitars, Synth & Vocals
Giuliano Mogicato - Guitars, Synth & Vocals

Well, i planned that every month i shall introduce a new band to u all, part of my weird and outstanding music collection. I shall start off my review with this extraodinary band from Italy. the band name Ephel Duath is in fact the mountain range that defends the kingdom of evil in Tolkien’s masterpiece.

This band started off in 1998 only as a duo.
Apart from their demo album "Opera", Ephel Duath has 2 fantastic studio album under the record label Code666, "Phormula", "The painters pallete" and also reissue of phormula, "Rephormula" with bonus tracks of which ill review later.. Now guess what….. as i am writing this review i also happen to find out that they are gonna release a new album….. tomoro!!!!!!!!! arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! cant wait. damn, btw the new albums titled "The Pain Neccessary To Know". it would be a pain if i dont get this album!

To continue… now just after the release of their first album, Giuliano decides to quit the band which leaves Davide at risk to manage the band alone. but the relese of Rephormula managed to get him some time to get the band back up again.

Good enough on 2003, they relese another absolutely awesome album, my favorite, The Painters Pallete, with a quite unique line up. What made the band unique and bizzare is that in this modern time thay have managed to create a whole new genre of their own. Well many ppl cant classify them to a proper category, but i would like to call this album progressive death jazz. argh! awesomeness!
The best part of ephel duath’s story or the main reason of this new genre comes from the drummer Davide Piovesan He’s a 47-year-old percussion instrument and polyrhythmic teacher with a Jazz-Blues background. yup thats righ jazz…. he had no aquaintance at all to metal. The next recruit is a highly experienced bass player of Prog-Fusion
extraction, Fabio Fecchio, also quite lacking in his knowledge of
extreme Metal. The melodic voice of the group is Davide Tolomei, an old
friend of Davide Tiso. The last selection to be made was the front man Lucio Lorusso. Davide Tiso remains the band’s only guitarist and also the heart and soul of Ephel Duath. With this crazy combo put together, comes alive this bizzare and one of a kind album. Awesomenessss!!!

Official Website: www.ephelduath.net
Similar Artist: Limbonic Art, Emporer, Agalloch, Cynic, Devin Townsend, Dillinger Escape Plan

Next post… Ephel Duath album reviews.

Aha … yess….. music… i shall talk alll about music in here… my reviews, my opinions, all….. should i go by genre or by artist…. hmmm…..

i hate blogs…. i wonder why am i starting one…..will find out soon…..