Music: Black Metal
Website: http://www.myspace.com/arumblackmetal
Country: Brazil
Cool songs: Intro, Hecate Chant
ARUM was formed by Marcelo Miranda somewhere between 1990 and 1991. Then, the band was called GRUUNKS. After some years of hard working, the band decided to suspend the performance, so that in 2000, after four years of the break, the activity was restarted, but under a new name – ARUM. With the name many things changed: the music, ideology, influences and the climate. Inhuman Echoes from the Shadows is the second album, released after the rebirth.
When spying the black metal shelf in search for something interesting it is absolutely impossible to find music more monotonous than this. after a promising beginning, aggressive and fleshy sounds spiced up with melodic and progressive elements, the rest sounds pretty odd, and by that I mean boring. The riffs are totally the same in each song, those are copied melodic lines from the second track, Garden of Lost Souls, it is really hard to find the difference between the compositions. What is more, there are extremely audible problems with the melodic and rhythmic sections. Show downs are quite chaotic and really disappoint. But all in all, it is a model black melt, with some mood-building elements, like good acoustic fills, working very in plus, but still being in the shade of that uninteresting play. It is visible, that the band have artistic aspirations towards symbolic black metal, although their performance leave a lot to be desired.
To sum it up, there are some gaps in this body. The anatomy is almost complete, guts are the only part missing. More innovation, ideas, variety and aggression. Only then will this music speak to the masses.
note: 4/10
Tracklist
1. Intro
2. Garden of Lost Souls
3. The Oath of Faithfulness
4. Under a Black Magic Spell
5. The Skies of Armaggeda
6. Hecate Chant
7. Scoria Sovereignty Annihilation
8. The Chaos Harmony
9. Pazuzu
10. The Howl of Pestilential Wind
Total playing time 38:23
Line-up
David Suria – bass, vocals
Joăo Gobo – drums
Marcelo Miranda – guitars, vocals
Guest:
Fernanda Ferretti – vocals, keyboards
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