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/:: Artist :: Taake ::\
:: Album :: Stridens Hus ::
:: Year :: 2021 ::
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:: . Genre :: Black Metal Source :: CDDA . ::
:: Label :: Mindscrape Music R.date :: 19.10.2021 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: MIND051-CD Size :: 102,3 MB __::_
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. Quality :: 44,1kHz/Joint-Stereo .
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:: 01. Gamle Norig 05:54 ::
:: 02. Orm 06:43 ::
:: 03. Det Fins en Prins 08:07 ::
:: 04. Stank 06:20 ::
:: 05. En Sang til Sand om Ildebrann 05:06 ::
:: 06. Kongsgaard Bestaar 05:35 ::
:: 07. Vinger 05:49 ::
:: 08. Cold (The Cure Cover) 06:34 ::
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:: "Stridens Hus" is a Taake's sixth studio album. The ::
:: comeback after 3 years of waiting impressed me a lot. And ::
:: one of the reasons is that the album still has the original ::
:: sound that Hoest has been working on for an almost decade, ::
:: without any changes. The sound that has been partly reached ::
:: in the fourth studio album "Taake" since then had become a ::
:: noticeable feature. And I support the Hoest's decision to ::
:: take a break with experiments and squeeze as much as he can ::
:: from the base that he himself established after long years ::
:: of wandering in the search for this inimitable sound. And ::
:: you can actually see the history of this wandering if you ::
:: will have a close meet with the whole discography from the ::
:: very beginning. But this review won't be about those ::
:: albums, obviously. ::
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:: As I noticed before, I loved this album for its ::
:: originality. Originality is one of the things that I like ::
:: in such genre as black metal. And Taake does its work ::
:: pretty good in this way. The originality, especially in the ::
:: atmosphere, is what still catches my attention to every ::
:: little piece of Taake's creation. Beautiful from one side ::
:: and dark and gloomy from the other, this atmosphere takes ::
:: you deep into Norwegian lands of the eternal cold and ::
:: sorrow, and represents it with the full TNBM impression. ::
:: Every time I start listen to the album , the first song, ::
:: "Gamle Norig", takes me away from my room and pushes ::
:: towards the North Pole below the night sky pierced with an ::
:: aurora. And after that I don't notice how tracks are ::
:: changing. It's the one big journey through which the author ::
:: wanted us to guide. Except, I think, one moment. The song ::
:: "Det Fins En Prins" reminds me of Taake's fifth album ::
:: "Noregs Vaapen", which is the change, for me, personally, ::
:: to the nostalgic mood. But, still, after, the rest of the ::
:: album goes in the same mood that it started from the ::
:: beginning. Which is awesome, because monotony has its own ::
:: beauty. ::
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:: I especially like the quality of the recording. Taake's ::
:: sound is, in my opinion, exactly that perfect sound that ::
:: black metal supposed to have in its modern, i.e. our, time ::
:: (posers who are trying to simulate the very raw sound of ::
:: 90's go to Satan). I like the guitar sound which is a bit ::
:: reverberated but not as much as it would be annoying to ::
:: listen to, but still it keeps the same (which is, again, ::
:: good) stage as the sound on "Noregs Vaapen" (the good ::
:: stage). The drums are bit harsher than on the previous ::
:: album which is neither bad nor good, but give me a bit ::
:: (still) different feel. ::
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