Description

Digibook with 16 page booklet

Nokturnal Mortum’s Goat Horns was the band’s debut album and it has granted a lot of underground success and increased Nokturnal Mortum’s ‘true’ reputation among the listeners. The album was released from Nuclear Blast records, but Nokturnal Mortum soon after declined the deal with them, prejudicing the label of commercialism. This is a blaze from the Ukrainian sky. With a six piece that sports not one but two keyboard players, it would be all too easy to dismiss Nokturnal Mortum as yet another attempt at highly unoriginal pseudo-orchestral Black Metal. But ‘Goat Horns’ refuses to accept such a fate. Sure, this album has keyboards, a lot of them, and more than once they are the driving force that pushes the compositions onwards. What makes them – and the whole album – stand above the rest is the very tasteful and effective use that is made of them. Their different voices and grades of presence make a strong contribution to the different moods and atmospheres to be found in each of the lengthy songs (the shortest one is around 7 minutes long). They also imitate the sounds of traditional instruments that come in every now and then (one of the band’s trademarks), and the result is very realistic. This album is one of a kind. It’s original, raw, melodic, atmospheric, immense in its symphonic scope and immediate in its enthralling charisma. This is Nokturnal Mortums finest hour. An essential album that are among the elite in the genre

Track listing:
1. Black Moon Overture
2. Kuyaviya
3. Goat Horns
4. Unholy Orathania
5. Veles; Scrolls
6. Kolyada
7. Eternal Circle