Lunar Poetry
by Nokturnal Mortum
- Type: Album
- Released: April 1996
- Label: Morbid Noizz
- Country: Ukraine
- Length: 45:19
- Community rating: 3.34/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Sataroth, Munruthel, Xaarquath, Wortherax, Knjaz Varggoth
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Originally released as a cassette demo, this foundational recording by the Ukrainian collective pushed extreme metal into deeply mystical, pagan territories. The incredibly raw, lo-fi black metal is heavily saturated with soaring, medieval synthesizer melodies and traditional Eastern European folk instrumentation. Its heavily atmospheric, nature-worshipping aesthetic deeply influenced the rapidly developing Eastern European black metal underground.
Genres
Descriptors: pagan, atmospheric, forest, melodic, nature
Tracklist
- Tears Of Paganism (1:27)
- Lunar Poetry (4:48)
- Perun's Celestial Silver (7:04)
- Carpathian Mysterious (5:09)
- ...And Winter Becomes (4:50)
- Ancient Nation (5:08)
- The Grief Of Oriana (5:30)
- Sorrows Of The Moon (3:44)
- Autodafe / Barbarian Dreams (7:39)
Credits
- Nokturnal Mortum - primary artist
- Xaarquath - bass, written-by
- Munruthel - drums, percussion, written-by
- Knjaz Varggoth - guitar, vocals, written-by
- Wortherax - guitar, written-by
- Sataroth - keyboards, written-by
- I. Gaidenko - written-by
- Tom G. Warrior - written-by