MONS LVNAE „Seven Winds”

Music: Folk Gothic Doom Metal
Website: www.monslunae.com
Duration: 36:00 minutes (8 tracks)
Country: Portugal

“Seven Winds” of Portuguese MONS LVNAE contains compositions based in Folk-Gothically Doom Metal climates. The 8 tunes being on the disc creates mood what I would can compare to THE GATHERING from album “Mandylion” or else in small degree to HAGGARD.

The slow, melodious and heavy guitar's compositions interwoven by the piano's and the synthesiser's passages as well as by melodies of the flute create the basis of the music. On the front of the music sounds the very nostalgic, gentle and sometimes purposeful feminine singing, supported by deep male's growling here and there. In addition the folk breath gives melodies remindful mediaeval or Saracen music. Moreover in the arrangements are audible fascinations of classical music and old music.

Material is well-kept in slowly tempo mainly with small tendencies to gentle accelerations. The whole is very climatical and melancholy.

Tracklist

1. Into Kyrie
2. Inexistence
3. Seven Winds
4. In Extrema Spe Salvtis
5. Lost Promise
6. The Long Nights Of Alamuts
7. Twilight Skies
8. Away To The Mountains

Line-up

Célia Ramos: Lead Vocals
Ana Figueiredo: Flute & Back Vocals
Hugo Gomes: Electric Guitar & Programming
Fernando Marques: Electric Guitar & Programming
Gualter Charrua: Electric Bass Guitar
Tiago Lopes: Drums