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          Presents:

          Artist  : Drudkh
          Album   : Autumn Aurora
          Year    : 2004

          Genre   : Black Metal
          Label   : Supernal Music
          Cat.nr  : Ferly012CD

          Source  : CDDA
          R.date  : 08-10-2007
          Size    : 57,3 MB

          Grabber : Exact Audio Copy V0.95 beta 4
          Encoder : LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
          Quality : VBR/44,1/Joint-Stereo




          Tracklist:


          01.  Fading                                            01:31
          02.  Summoning the Rain                                05:41
          03.  Glare of Autumn                                   05:10
          04.  Sunwheel                                          08:48
          05.  Wind of the Night Forests                         09:59
          06.  The first Snow                                    09:11
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          Release Notes:


          The follow up to their debut Forgotten Legends is
          truly amazing. They used many new thing here as
          well as retaining many aspects of their first
          album. There's a couple more tracks this time and
          it's a bit longer. The sound, although similar in
          terms of ambience and atmosphere, it a little
          crunchier than the last, the drums are a little
          easier to hear, whereas when it came time to play
          fast before, it was hard to hear sometimes. The
          only reason that this isnt as good as the debut,
          is basically the music. Everything sounds better,
          but the songs dont have that epic vibe as much,
          whereas before every song was epic. I like to
          think of Drudkh's albums as times of the day.
          Forgotten Fields was like during the night in the
          forest, whereas Autumn Aurora is the next morning,
          with dusk falling upon the forest and eventually
          the sun coming up.

          Nonetheless, opener Fading is some beautiful
          acoustic work which seems to take place in a
          forest.

          This moves to Summoning the Rain, which definitly
          not Drudkh's best song ever, it's more of a
          average piece, but by their standards, it's still
          great. There's nothing truly different that the
          band hasnt dont before, maybe the reason the song
          is not the best is due to over repetition. Since
          the riffs are not as memorable, it seems like the
          song just keeps going. Good song otherwise.

          Glare of Autumn is a bit long, and is again a kind
          of average song overall. It has it's moments but
          nothing too spectacular. Good song anyway, because
          Drudkh can do no wrong.

          Sunwheel is an interesting song. It's an upbeat
          black metal song... heh. but since this is a
          rarity, when the vocals come in, it seems like
          something's off. But when you think about it, the
          vocals are used more like another instrument than
          anything else. The atmosphere given off is most
          original and something no other band has done, or
          done since. I truly think of the warm morning sun
          rising on a cool autumn day. There's a solo too,
          which is definitly fitting in this song.

          Wind of the Night Forests is great. I like to
          imagine that it is now late-Fall and it's getting
          colder. But not winter yet. This may be the best
          song here, mostly because it is the most
          ferocious, which is probably the best word to
          describe it. This would have fit perfectly on FF,
          thats how atmospheric it is. The guitar tone even
          sounds like a small choir at times, which I find
          remarkable.

          Since I've been describing times of the day and
          year, We reach the end of the album The First
          Snow, so it's obviously now winter, or close to.
          Drudkh hit the mark on this one. Even if I didnt
          know the title of the song, I still wouldve
          imagined a forest being blanketed by snow, and
          blizzard even. This is probably the darkest song
          here, highly contrast to Sunwheel. The use of the
          acoustic guitar is very well placed.

          This is a truly great experience. I recommend this
          to everyone. I dont care what you listen to. That
          was probably the best way to close such a great
          album. It's also a good idea to listen to all of
          Drudkh's albums in consecutive order. Ive done it,
          and it's a greater feeling than just listening to
          one album at a time.


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