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Morrigan - Welcome to Samhain

Heavy, noisy... shitty... - 34%

Count_of_Alkaya, December 16th, 2006

2006 was a really really great year for metal and especially for extreme metal with such great outputs like Kalmah's "The Black Waltz", Damnation Army's "Tyrant" or Celtic Frost's "Monotheist", to name only few of them. So Morrigan decided to record a follow-up to "Headcult". Here we go.

What's the first thing that comes to my mind when I listen to "Welcome to Samhain"? Right. "What the hell is wrong with this intro?" So we have "We Are Possessed", an about two minutes long track where you can hear some people screaming. Nice one. Getting bored allready? Well, I was the first time I listened to this album. But wait, there's more coming. Yeah, right, there's also music on this CD. I don't know what they did to their once great compositions. What starts with "The Eye Of Despair" and ends about 45 minutes later with "Poch Mo Hoine" is just noisy and sounds very simmilar all the way through. The vocals are okay. They aren't as great as on let's say "Celts" for example. But they are still nice, even if I miss those hymnic parts a bit. What really sucks is the production. There's no difference between the instruments. Everything's just a "wall of sound". Nothing sticks out. Even after several times listening to this album, I can't figure any clear riffs out. There are some tracks which remind me of the glory of old days, "Life, Death And The Here After" for exemple, but overall there are more shitty "BM-Noise"-tracks than really hymnic Bathoryesque Pagan BM songs.

So if you like uptempo Black Metal thrashing and don't care about such things as melodicity, then "Welcome to Samhain" might be worth a listen. But if you want a second "Celts", stay the hell away from this album.