Search - Summoning :: Minas Morgul

Tedium

Dancer of Life (dfm6@cornell.edu) | 08/18/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Customer reviews are rather misleading in that everyone seems to throw the five star rating around without sincerity or thought. Minas Morgul is that rather dry album stuck in between two of Summoning's better albums: Lugburz and Dol Guldar, two of which are essential to a BM collection. While these two albums were a bit more lively and majestic, Minas is rather slow, repetitious, and uninspiring. While repetion is certainly not bad for creating ambience as Burzum, Darkthrone and Graveland have revealed, is is not all that engrossing when it is used soley to make long songs with weak themes. The flow of the album is inconsistent, built of agonizingly slow and underproduced tracks shoved in between squeeky clean instrumentals that don't really add anything to the album. The majority of these instrumentals amount to novelty and almost random compulsion (which would plague later Abigor albums). If you really like Summoning and you have the cash, I would pick this up, but for those who have never heard Summoning, I would listen to Lugburz (for that necro-BM sound) and Dol Goldar (for majestic keyboard soaked soundscapes)."

Minas Morgul - The Dead City

A. Jardine | Washington, PA United States | 06/15/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In the Lord of the Rings books, Minas Morgul was known as the Dead city, home of the Witch King of Agmna. Summoning has gone with more keyboards along with their traditional black metal and it sounds really evil. Silenius is a great musician all around and so is Protector (of all endless sleeps). Protector's vokills are much better (meaning worse) than Lugburz. The song Lugburz is absolutely great and why wasn't it on the Lugburz album? This was worth the $ and is a black/classical metal album."