### Numen: Numen

#### 23/05/11 || Altmer

In this edition of “GD gets sent cow feces as part of the job”: we receive black metal from Spain. I think the list is piling and piling up. This review is basically my notice to all of you aspiring bands out there: I know you think you’ve got shit worked out. I know you think you should get a record label. I know you want to be Slayer, or whatever other band out there. But guys, most of you suck the limp frog dick. And when it comes to this “pagan” black metal, it’s… as it is. Shitty. The vocals are awful frog croaks. The black metal is average and uninspiring at best. This is the kind of album that makes reviewers quit their job in ultimate frustration.

What this album is, is mediocre. It’s another album in the void where endless albums get sent, the well of names which mean nothing to anyone but that have endeavored for a random Dutch student to listen to it in its free time and spend 40 minutes of his life writing up his miserable review. That’s what this album is. K has the guts to cover everything that gets sent to him hardcopy – I applaud him for this coverage, since people take the time and effort to make themselves be promoted – but quality control is far and few between. Everything can get recorded, from shitty German hard rock to shitty Italian everything to shitty Finnish folk metal. And Spain, not exactly known for its metal, doesn’t do anything to further this.

What this album basically does to me is let me sink in a stupid torpor of “why?” This album isn’t bad, it isn’t good, it’s an album that shouldn’t be released until it’s been made a whole fuck of a lot better. I guess if you are into black metal, you could like this. Or you could listen to Emperor instead. And if I want black metal done right, I will put on an Emperor record and be done with it. I won’t listen to this black metal with shitty vocals. Also, apparently, the drums are played by a machine, but here’s to what I did: not notice. Just so you know.

The lyrics are apparently in Basque (a minority language in a separatist Spanish region), so if you don’t understand the titles or lyrics, no one else does. It’s apparently all about the local traditions. Whatever the fuck those are. So that’s that for the lyrical content.

Sorry, amigos, you’ll not break your duck here. Try again when you’ve written a good album.

- Information
- Released: 2007
- Label: Unsigned
- Website: Numen MySpace
- Band
- Aritz: vocals
- Jabo: guitars
- Xabi: guitars
- Lander: bass
- Eöl: keyboards, vocals

- Tracklist
- 01. Egunsentiaren Heriotza
- 02. Gauaren Irrifarre Izkutua
- 03. Etsipinaren Ispilu
- 04. Ahanzturaren Hilobia
- 05. Belearen Hegaldiak… Iluntasuna Dakar
- 06. Isiltasunaren Hots Hutsa…