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Arckanum: Trulen
14/07/06 || Global Domination
This review was written by ex-staffer/cocksmoker Chaim Drishner.
“Trulen” is not a good album. As much as I hate to admit it, given the fact both Carnal Records and Arckanum have found a warm place within my heart, “Trulen” is an amateurish, loosely executed and punk-ish musically shallow demo-turned-to-album sort of thing, an early spawn of one, very young and enthusiastic musician by the pseudonym of Shamaatae.
Either “Trulen” has been an unripe fruit in the year 1994 or the under-production of the demo limited its finer moments to shine through, there is no real point in getting this particular album (once a demo, as aforesaid) even when you’re an Arckanum rabid fan, for it offers nothing you cannot get on the other, more mature wonder-works by this unique entity, that captures the authentic sounds of nature on tape and delivers the beauty-and-the-beast qualities of the great beyond via the most majestic of sounds.
Albums such as “Fran Marder”, “Kostogher” and “Kampen” which have had the power and massive allure to even re-introduce your humble servant to black metal once again (the harsh, raw, profound sides of black metal, NOT the clichéd ones…) are the crest of Arckanum’s creation, what makes “Trulen” a redundant album with not enough interesting moments or atmosphere to make a fuss over it. What more, Carnal Records has released an eleven year anniversary album which is a compilation of unreleased material spanning an era between 1992 and 2003 which should give a fair and satisfying glimpse to this one-man singular entity.
The interesting thing is that Arckanum’s debut album, “Fran Marder”, has been recorded only a year or so after Shamaatae had released the crude and substandard “Trulen”, which is, more or less, almost a quantum-leap from utter mediocrity (again, I must stress, “Trulen” is only mediocre by the high standards of Arckanum’s great music. It is still, by far, better then most releases infesting the black/pagan/folk metal of modern time) to the genius and utterly overwhelming masterpiece called “Fran Marder”. You could do without this album, you really could, unless you’re either one of these types: a compulsive collector with extra cash in your pocket or a first timer to Arckanum’s extraordinary type of metal.
5.5/10 (a relative score for an Arckanum album) and/or 7.5/10 (if compared to other metal releases in general).
- Information
- Released: 2006
- Label: Carnal Records
- Website: www.arckanum.se
- Band
- Shamaatae: all instruments
- Tracklist
- 01. Pans lughn
- 02. Hvila pa tronan
- 03. Trulfærþ
- 04. Yvir min diupe marder
- 05. Trulfærþ
- 06. Et sorghetog
- 07. þræl
- 08. Gava fran trulen
- 09. Ener hæl sial
- 10. Bærghet
- 11. Myrkr ynnist
- 12. Svinna
- 13. Ener skipnadher at fylghia
- 14. Kolin væruld
- 15. Ener stilla sior af droten
- 16. Gava fran trulen
- 17. Yvir min diupe marder
- 18. Svinna