Negurã Bunget - N Crugu Bradului

Majestic, epic, sweeping pagan dark metal is the music Negurã Bunget make. Somehow, I feel that if Lord of the Rings had a metal soundtrack instead of the typical movie cheese made up by James Horner, this will be it. Negurã Bunget hails from Timisoara, Romania infamously known to outsiders as Transylvania. The band's spiritual ideology in nature is evident in the physical manifestation of this release on Italian label code666. Each cd box is handmade, containing a real leaf inside.

At times chaotic and at times brooding, N Crugu Bradului sweeps the listener up through an epic journey deep within the cold wintry Carpathian Mountains. The album explores Romainian folklore, yet the tracks are entitled simply I, II, III, and IIII, with none of them shorter than 12 minutes. Enslaved's Isa springs to mind when hearing this, yet the analogy is inappropriate. Isa was released almost 2 years after N Crugu Bradului. Regretfully, I had not discovered Negurã Bunget until fairly recently.

This is highly recommended for all fans of epic drawn out music along the likes of Weakling, Enslaved, and Burzum.