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artist: Drudkh
title: Eastern Frontier in Flames
year: 2014
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: Season of Mist Underground Activists
language: English
rel. date: 2014-01-17
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:45:14
size: 108.79MB
rip date: 2024-11-23
source url: http://deezer.com/album/307834057
tracklist:
1. Fallen into Oblivion 7:00
2. Ashes 6:25
3. Tam gdzie gasnie dzien... (Sacrilegium cover) 10:22
4. Indißnskß pφsen hruzy (Master's Hammer cover) 5:34
5. ...w krainie drzew (Hefeystos cover) 5:44
6. Ten, kter² se vyh²bß svetlu (Unclean cover) 5:13
7. Recidivus (Sacrilegium cover) 4:56
release notes:
Eastern Frontier in Flames collects all of Drudkh's material from two
previously released EPs and one split. Many of these releases are no
longer available, so for listeners who did not acquire them, this
serves as a useful and convenient way to acquire this material.
Anti-Urban is often regarded as the band's weakest effort, and is the
least interesting material here. It's often rumoured to comprise two
outtakes from the Forgotten Legends sessions, and if they aren't, they
certainly sound like musical regressions. They're not bad songs, but
they're also not particularly exciting. Of the two, the vocal track,
"Ashes", is probably the more interesting of the two.
Slavonic Chronicles was a cover EP recorded as a companion to the
band's controversial "post-rock" experiment Handful of Stars (released
with a deluxe CD version of the album and also separately as a 10"
vinyl record), and is often more widely liked than the album it
accompanied. It's interesting to hear the band's reverential takes on
some comparatively obscure material from Sacrilegium and Master's
Hammer, and their performances are convincing and committed. This
material is where the set becomes truly interesting.
Thousands of Moons Ago also consists of cover material, this time
recorded for a split with Winterfylleth (whose superb cover of Drudkh
predecessor Hate Forest's "The Gates" is unfortunately not included
here, my only major complaint with this set apart from the lack of a
vinyl release). This time around the band tackled material by
Hefeystos, Unclean, and Sacrilegium (again). What I said about the
quality of Slavonic Chronicles applies to this material as well;
indeed, there's little stylistic difference between the two sets, and
an unsuspecting listener told that the recordings came from the same
source would very likely not doubt that.
Overall, hardcore Drudkh fans already likely owned much or all of this
material before it was collected, but for those who don't, it's a
useful and convenient way to acquire all of it at once. It's unlikely
that anyone but hardcore fans will be interested in Anti-Urban, but
the cover songs will very likely appeal to a wider base, and thus make
this set recommended to black metal fans (particularly Slavonic black
metal fans) who do not already own the material.