IMBER LUMINIS - LIFE AS BURDEN - CD - 500 COPIES - RELEASE DATE: 27/03/2012

Imber Luminis were officially born in 2009, but mostly, they started their activity in 2006. Deha’s idea, the person who is behind this project, was to create a personal world, mixing slow, melodic metal with harsh and clean vocals.

Deha is also the person who is behind more projects, such as YHDARL (suicidal/funeral black/doom), MERDA MUNDI (black metal), SLOW (atmospheric “space” slow doom), etc. Eventually, Imber Luminis was also inspired from influences that were used in the other projects mentioned above.

The concept of Imber Luminis is simply a catharsis of feelings about life, death, sorrow, pain, suffering and true melancholy. The new release, “Life as Burden“, contains 4 long tracks, including a cover song of the too well known song “Sick of it all” by the band FINGER ELEVEN, completely done with IL’s touch. Sometimes the keys are just short passages of classical piano, a thing that turns it into a trace of melancholy. Explosive passages would not fit into an album that should be regarded as melancholic, contemplative and depressive.
The riffs, hard, repetitive and slow. The thing that gives this album its authenticity are the vocal parts that were introduced. A combination of clean vocals and screams, very specific to depressive black metal. It’s a thing that you don’t encounter nearly as often, depressive black metal vocals and funeral doom, mixed.

All in all “Life as Burden” is a combination of low tones, rough riffs, authentic parts of funeral doom and melancholic sequences, lashed into a gloomy ambiance. It’s an album that takes your blackest thoughts out, an album that gives you suffering, pain and desperation, so that they’d reach the most obscure cells of one’s brain. The dark part of our own feelings.

Rating: 9 / 10
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Tracklist :

1. Perfect Death
2. I am not
3. Sick of it all
4. Life as Burden

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/imberluminis
http://www.last.fm/music/Imber+Luminis