VIMUR "Triumphant Master of Fates"



VIMUR

"Triumphant Master of Fates"

Don't look now but the 90's black metal nostalgia kick is in full swing. After the arrival of the excellent new Windswept album, here comes Vimur to try their claw-like hand at this classic misanthropic style. Believe it or not, these warriors hail from the grim, frost-bitten plains of...Atlanta, Georgia?!

They make a good first impression simply with the fantastic cover art here. That always helps to put one in the right frame of mind for epic darkness. And epic darkness is the best description of the Vimur sound. The songs are extremely fast, cold and vicious but still with very notable melody and the occasional dash of grandeur. I hear so much in this vein, it's hard to really lavish praise on a lot of it but Vimur sure knows what they are doing and as this album rushes on, it gains force and impact.

"Adversarial Impetus Ignition" has an almost deliriously upbeat sound to it that makes it different. The record really comes into its own with "Nuclear Desecration", which lays waste to your brain with a kind of blackened death metal feel. "Our Dearest Hopes Lie Buried Here" is the opposite side of the coin...a slow, doomy and majestic crawler much in the vein of the slower Bathory Viking odes. The band unleash a 10 minute opus to end the album, "Supreme Presumption of the Lightless Emptiness", showing they can be as long winded in naming songs as performing. This one covers a lot of ground but for the most part is fast to the point of insanity.

A very commendable attempt to recapture the glory days of black metal here.

BORIS RECORDS

VIMUR


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