NEGURA BUNGET "Om" Reviews

[Emi]

http://www.wallsoffire.de/Reviews/sh...kritik_id=7535


Autorbewertung: http://www.wallsoffire.de/sterne/sterne.php4?anzahl=10 Erscheinugsdatum: 2006
Diese CD lässt mich sprachlos erscheinen. Ein derartiges Meisterwerk ist mir seit Ewigkeiten nicht mehr zu Ohren bekommen. Die Rede ist vom neuen Album der rumänischen Meister Negura Bunget. Wunderschöne Melodien, die einem Gänsehaut bescheren; eine dunkle Atmosphäre, die einen erschaudern lässt und verzweifelte Vocals von Hupogrammos bestimmen die knapp 67 Minuten auf „Om“. Einfach Wahnsinn!
Beginnend mit dem Intro „Ceasuri Rele“, in dem Sänger und Gitarrist Hupogrammos flüstert, faucht und wie besessen schreit, dass einem Angst und Bange wird, begleitet von Geräuschen spiritueller Schwärze. Auch wenn er rumänisch flucht, man vermag ihn in dieser dunklen Stimmung zu verstehen. Am Anfang des zweiten Tracks setzen ausschließlich die Gitarren ein; und das mit einer Magie… , bevor die Drums diese (fast schon) verträumte Melodie weitertreiben. Keybordeinsatz und Negura Bunget prügeln los. Doch nicht einfach drauf los, sondern so durchdacht und intelligent, dass einem der Mund nicht mehr zugeht. Wassergeplätscher und ein Synthi-Teppich vermischt sich mit der genialen Melodie und lässt einen in anderen Sphären schweben. „Primul Om“ beginnt mit beschwörenden Worten, bevor „Om“-Chants erklingen, die eine so tiefschwarze Stimmung erzeugen, wie man es noch nie gehört hat (ich jedenfalls nicht). Dann Glockengeläut und es erklingen Hörner, untermalt von durchgehenden Keybordklängen… . Negura Bunget erzählen Geschichten ohne auch nur ein Wort zu gebrauchen. Ich schließe die Augen und sehe mich in Transilvanien, umringt von der wunderschönen Natur dort. Der vierte Track „Cunoasterea Tacuta“ hat zwar leichten Pagan-Einschlag, lässt aber die Dunkelheit im Konzept dieses Albums nie verschwinden. Percussions und ein Holzbläser geben dem fünften Song „Inarborat“ ein Folk-Feeling, bevor ein abstraktes, teilweise schon fast disharmonisches Riffing einsetzt und das Lied zu einem astreinen Black Metal Song wird. Recht progressiv geht es mit „Dedesuptul“ weiter, einem der düstersten Stücke auf „Om“, wenn man das überhaupt behaupten kann, denn jede Komposition besticht durch ihre Dunkelheit. Und das zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch alle elf Tracks. Kann man die Musik von Negura Bunget noch als Black Metal bezeichnen? Ich denke, dann würde man es sich viel zu einfach machen. Die Rumänen sind vielschichtiger, variabler und mit den sphärischen Parts beweisen sie, wie man dunkle Musik wirklich düster machen kann. Für mich ist es das bisherige Highlight des Jahres und ich denke nicht, dass das noch jemand toppen kann. Zieht Euch die CD rein und Ihr wisst, was ich meine. Erschienen ist „Om“ übrigens als Special-Package, mit 8-seitigem Booklet, der Audio-CD und einer DVD mit Clips und Live-Aufnahmen der Meister, die mir hier leider nicht vorliegt.

Autor: [Walzenstein]

[Emi]

http://www.metalteamuk.net/

Artist: Negura Bunget
Title: Om (Code 666)
Type: Album
Rating – 9.5/10

Geographically Negura Bunget have always stood in a field of their own, one that has seen them as being highly respected in UGBM circles. Despite quirky tricks such as releasing albums in boxes with pine leaves it is the music on Om (translated simply as man in their native tongue) that will have people sitting up and taking notice.
This opus is an exercise in vast, spatial and downright mind expanding cosmic energy that few have come near to touching. Long ever flowing riffs are gloriously uplifting, working on a mesmerising simplicity whilst the progressive fusion of the remaining instrumentation virtually drops into free fall around them. The atmospheric pallor always has violence near to hand and the rabid anger tinged vocal cries of discontent from the somewhat insanely named Hupogrammos are quick to bite as savagely as anything thrown out from the Transylvanian wastelands.
There is a very retro feel tingeing things and this is one band that are certainly not afraid to utilise synthesizers. Waves of them flow from the speakers in a fashion reminiscent of Electric Tepee era Hawkwind with the lone guitar chord sorrowfully weeping away in their wake. Trance like states are certainly hinted at with distant horns and the sound of cow bells tinkling away like a pagan post KLF chill out.
Gnarly and rugged Dedesuptul flows into Norilor a number that is filmic in scope. This is a dark film soundtrack at work, as it creeps with danger and stealth into tribal drumming bearing down like a main course invitation to a cannibal cookout. Having brought timpani, woodblocks and xylophone into play and keeping the music ever fresh and inventive the folk laden Hora Soarelui has flute piping merrily amidst clean vocal croons emitting a bacchanalian joviality. With the concept having set out to provide a ritual that is designed to transform the listener into an evolved individual, the music here really does take you to a higher plane of existence and comes close to invoking a shamanic state. Om is one album you could probably put in a pipe and smoke and with the added bliss of coming with a DVD of extras is nothing short of essential.
Www.negurabunget.com
Pete Woods

[Emi]

http://www.vampire-magazine.com/article.php?aid=42382

For those of you out there who want something that little bit different to satisfy your everlasting extreme music hunger, then without a shadow of a doubt Romania’s Negura Bunget are just the dish you have been searching for. Having been around for 11 years this bizarre trio have released four mind-blowing full lengths and a host of demos and EP’s of the most bewildering symphonic black metal you are ever likely to hear. Four years have past since the band released the criminally ignored ‘N Crugu Bradului’ so for those of you who thought that the band were dead and buried can think again because new opus ‘Om’ is just about as good as this stuff gets.

Likely to be in the top 10 of many a magazine’s album polls of 2006, the music contained within sears, soars and glides creating an atmosphere that will savage your soul and melt your heart at the same time. Much more than just a collection of songs ‘Om’ transports you into a fantastic realm of darkness and ice, with the dense guitars and swirling synths creating a blizzard of such epic and magnificent proportions it is almost impossible to transcribe in words. Think Vinterikket at his most euphoric and Enslaved at their most magnificent and your somewhere close to how unbelievable this music is, managing to compile a cleansing yet suffocating experience that will bring the extreme music world to its knees. Easily one of the best albums to rear its beautifully ugly head from the underground realms, it ranks, for this writer at least as the finest hour since hearing ‘In The Nightside Eclipse’ for the first time. As an added bonus, 'Om' comes with a bonus DVD featuring stunning video clips of the tracks "Cunoaºterea Tãcutã" and "Norilor", some live recordings and an interview with intense frontman Hupogrammos Disciple's (Edmond Karban) and drummer Negru so you can be sure to get your money's worth here as well. Absolutely amazing stuff that will be ignored no longer.

[Emi]

14/14 on LEGACY MAGAZINE (Germany- printed)

[Emi]

5/6 on ZERO TOLERANCE MAGAZINE (UK - Printed)

[Emi]

http://www.metalinside.it/

Ritorno sul mercato, a un anno di distanza dal mcd "Inarborat kosmos", per una delle band più misteriose e interessanti di tutta la scena black, i romeni Negura Bunget.
"Om" è la quinta fatica dei nostri, che si sono sempre contraddistinti per un sound personale e molto legato alla loro terra, non di facile assimilazione, ma che una volta compreso è veramente interessante e carico di atmosfera mistica e ancestrale.
Per quel che mi riguarda, "Om" è il miglior cd realizzato dai Negura Bunget, il più completo e quello dove mi sembra hanno trovato la loro dimensione definitiva (potrò sempre essere smentito in futuro...), un vero gioiello proveniente dalle oscure foreste della Transilvania.
Descrivere la musica dei nostri è un'impresa non da poco, ascoltare "Om" è quasi un'esperienza mistica capace di rapirvi per oltre un'ora di durata, ogni tanto mi viene da pensare che i Negura Bunget più che dei musicisti siano degli sciamani, vista l'atmosfera che riescono a donare alla loro proposta e all'effetto quasi ipnotico con cui riescono a catalizzare l'attenzione di un ascoltatore attento.
Il black metal suonato dalla band, come dicevo sopra, non è di facile assimilazione, soprattutto per i molti elementi presenti e grazie anche a uno stile che oramai si può tranquillamente definire unico, le note di "Om" trasudano misticismo e magia arcana, non manca anche un tocco folk grazie all'uso di strumenti tradizionali.
Il cd è di una tale varietà che lascia basiti per l'ispirazione dei suoi compositori, che si dimostrano degli abili musicisti, che partiti da una base black metal sono riusciti ad evolversi fino ad arrivare a sorprendere con uno stile veramente unico e particolare.
Il disco non mostra veramente punti deboli, pur durando molto riesce a non far calare mai l'attenzione dell'ascoltatore grazie a canzoni sempre coinvolgenti e cariche di atmosfera, su tutte direi che prevalgono, a mio modesto parere, la lunga e oscura "Tesarul del lumini" con il suo fantastico riffing ipnotico, e la maestosa ed epica "Cunoasterea tacuta", anche le altre comunque non sono da meno, ripeto, un disco che non ha cali ispirativi.
Anche la produzione, effettuata dalla band, risulta veramente azzeccata, non troppo pulita ma dove tutti gli strumenti hanno lo spazio che li compete e capace di non fare perdere un pizzico di atmosfera alla splendida musica dei Negura Bunget.
Passiamo a un altro aspetto che mi ha fortemente colpito, prima di tutto la splendida confezione e la grafica che è misteriosa tanto quanto la musica della band, secondo, il dvd presente in questa prima (penso...) tiratura, finalmente non il classico riempitivo ma un prodotto veramente interessante con una bella intervista alla band, alcuni video che ho trovato molto belli e alcune canzoni dal vivo, la Code666 ha fatto veramente le cose in grande.
Non escono tutti i giorni dischi del calibro di "Om", il mio consiglio è di addentrarvi dentro le nebbie della proposta dei Negura Bunget e di farvi ammaliare da questa splendida band.
VOTO 8,5/10
RECENSIONE A CURA DIMAX

[Darkcrawl]

From Terrorizer (UK) magazine:

There are few pleasures available to the music fan as great as watching a band simmer, slowly come to the boil and then [i]blow.[i] In the four years since Negura Bunget's last full-length release, the perfectly respectable 'N Crugu Bradului', it'd be forgivable to imagine Romania's finest export had been locked away rehearsing and composing non-stop, forging, folding, re-folding and planing the material to the apogee of perfection like a Japanese sword. Like Drudkh's albums, 'Om' underlines the unassailable supremacy of the Eastern European scene's idea of symphonic, sweeping black metal over the footling, plinky-plonky ideas graveyard their western cousins cling to. The keyboards create enormous, evocative landscapes of sound, the vocals are convincingly impassioned and hoarse with ancient pride, the dense guitars are stirring and resolute and the whole experience is euphoric, cleansing and draining all at the same time. 'Om's bonus DVD is unexpectedly illuminating, though not particularly of Negura's ideological motivations (a slightly rambling interview with intense vocalist Hupogrammos is baffling, though drummer Negru is affable and concise). No, the breathtaking video clips of Transylvanian forests, artfully directed and beautifully shot on film rather than tacky video, eloquently illustrate the music's innate primeval vastness. Expect to hear that chant of 'Om' again echoing through the year-end album poles.

[9/10] James 'Harry' Hinchcliffe

[sopor]

http://www.nocturnalhall.de/frameindex.htm

Label: code666
Release: November 3 2006
By: Dajana
Rating: 10/10 (album of the month)
Time: 67:06
Style: Black Metal
URL: Negurã Bunget


A long, long time we had to wait. After the release of the outstanding album ’N crugu bradului in 2003 it was planned to unleash the follower OM early 2005. But many different problems have foiled all plans so NEGURÃ BUNGET decided to release an EP first to shorten the waiting time a bit.
Now the year 2006 is coming to an end and the Romanian gents finally made it to get the highly anticipated full-length out. And what can I say? The long waiting was definitely worthwhile!
OM is an absolute masterpiece of dark and apocalyptic black metal. It’s dense and intensive, enticing, mesmerizing, oppressive, mystical and ice-cold at the same time. NEGURÃ BUNGET earlier called their own style as „Primitive Transylvanian Metal“. Now it makes sense. Compared with OM, preceding releases sound raw and sometimes inordinate.
OM reveals much attention details. The sound is complex and layered. Many instruments and samples get used, perfectly staged, and not too many at the same time, not overloading or confusing the music. Quite the contrary! It’s a pleasure to discover new aspects with every new run. Just pay attention to all the percussive elements on this record. Same goes for the songwriting. NEGURÃ BUNGET almost reached the maximum in creating tensions that erupt in epic melodies.
OM begins the way the EP Inarborat Kosmos: with the intro Ceasuri Rele that thematically ties in with Vaiet, but also could come from an Elend release. Tesarul De Lumini again (just great, I love this song) sounds like a collaboration with Void Of Silence, while Primul Om is a pure ambient-like and atmospheric instrumental as well as Norilor and the closing outro Al Doilea/Om. Inarborat is equal to Wordless Knowledge from the EP, just a bit deeper tuned to get rid of… um… a certain cheeriness the song on the EP owns due its fanfares? As for me I heard quite often similarities to the EP, but while directly comparing there were differences.
Of course, guitars are not cut out; it’s still a black metal album In between pace and heaviness get always again boosted. But OM is more than just a black metal record. OM is the soundtrack to your journey thru Transylvanian, a journey thru the history of mankind and thru your inner I, interpreted by NEGURÃ BUNGET. This album is just breathtaking!

OM comes as a CD/DVD double-pack. On the bonus DVD are video clips, live clips, an interview and footage to find. A must-have!!!

[Hubster]

[lurch70]

amazing reviews so far ... I can't imagine anyone not liking this.

so is there truth to the fact that the initial run of CD/DVD is sold out already?