Narjahanam - Undama Tath'hur Al Shams Mn Al Gharb

\r\nArabic Folk/ Black Metal from Bahrain... Is there anything more odd to listen to? This band with the not easy nor catchy name Narjahanam has its first album out under Haarbn Productions. Unfortunately, despite the uniqueness, as we don’t meet releases like this one everyday, things aren’t good at all and Narjahanam need tragic improvement to reach up to a satisfying level. Everything in the album is dreary and ugly, starting off from the sound, going to compositions and ending to an ugly and annoying production. There are some slow songs trying to be heard as oriental as possible using many keyboards but sadly the result is just boring. Besides, it’s not a few times the band speeds up and only chaos comes to mind since they give the impression they don’t have any bonding in their playing at all, instead each one of them plays whatever he wants. But to say things straight though, there are some ideas which if they were developed properly in addition to a proper production, we could have had a nice thing to listen to. I hope next time Narjahanam will have improved their sound and have matured. Some good ideas aren’t enough... It’s the whole that matters!\r\n

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\r\nVassilis Mazaris\r\n

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\r\nTranslation: Barbara Karpodini\r\n

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