Tracklist
Under A Silvered Star | 3:31 | ||
The Lay Of Númenorë | 14:04 | ||
Ar-Pharazôn | 7:12 | ||
Far Umbar | 8:16 | ||
Elenion Ancalima | 8:00 |
Credits (4)
- NartumArtwork, Graphics
- NartumMusic By, Vocals
- NartumProducer
- Hildr ValkyrieVocals [Guest]
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Image | , | – | In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory | Version Details | Data Quality | ||||
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Elenion Ancalima CD, Album, Limited Edition, Digipak | Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152, Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152-DG | Germany | 2017 | Germany — 2017 | Recently Edited | ||||
Elenion Ancalima Cassette, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition | Out Of Season – oos50 | US | 2017 | US — 2017 | New Submission | ||||
Elenion Ancalima 5×File, WAV, Album | Not On Label (Emyn Muil Self-released) – none | 2017 | 2017 | New Submission | |||||
Elenion Ancalima LP, Album, Limited Edition, Silver | Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152 | Germany | 2018 | Germany — 2018 | New Submission | ||||
Elenion Ancalima LP, Album, Limited Edition, Clear | Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152 | Germany | 2018 | Germany — 2018 | New Submission | ||||
Elenion Ancalima LP, Album, Limited Edition, Blue | Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152 | Germany | 2018 | Germany — 2018 | New Submission | ||||
Elenion Ancalima CD, Album | Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152, Nartum Music Projects – NSP 152 | Germany | 2018 | Germany — 2018 | |||||
Elenion Ancalima Cassette, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue | Out Of Season – oos50 | US | 2020 | US — 2020 | New Submission | ||||
Elenion Ancalima LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, sea blue w/white and black splatter | Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152 | Germany | 2023 | Germany — 2023 | New Submission | ||||
Elenion Ancalima Cassette, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Full Color UV Shell | Out Of Season – oos50 | US | 2024 | US — 2024 | New Submission | ||||
Elenion Ancalima LP, Album, Test Pressing, Black Vinyl | Northern Silence Productions – NSP 152 | Germany | Germany | New Submission |
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- Nartum refines his epic black metal art here. This album is considerably more ambient and symphonic than "Turin Turambar" and features stronger melodies that shift from the elegiac to the bombastic. Moreover, it has a clearer trajectory, starting slow and building to a more intense peak and then cascading gently down from this to beautiful closer "Elenion Ancalima", featuring the sublime vocals of Angela-Kelly Antoniou. I think that this a better album, partly because it is less predictable and sounds less like a Summoning tribute. More especially, the slower pace and ambient aspect allows the listener's imagination to roam to scenes of epic fantasy easily.
I find this appealing. As Tolkien said in a letter: "Part of the attraction of The Lord of the Rings is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist." This album, amongst some others from Summoning, Midnight Odyssey, Druadan Forest etc, does indeed have the attraction of this hazily distant view. If this is program music, it is not very programmatic, as there is freedom in what the listener's imagination may conjure (as long as it big and long).
One of the problems of the epic is that its distant view of longer term trajectories can over-indulge the smooth and generic: everything and everybody becomes archetypal and predictable in a hazy, soft-focus distant view. To put it frankly, the epic can be downright kitsch and cliched. The eagle-eye perspective can gloss over detail, and as we know the detail is where the devil lies. Yet this distant promontory is one of the few ways we humans have to view ourselves and our doings more objectively, rid ourselves of gross imbalances, and start to think in longer term ways. The epic is a counter-balance to our busy doings, one conspicuously absent in our culture today. Epic black metal is to be appreciated for bringing it back in music and this album is a significant contributor.
My crystal clear vinyl edition sounds superb - massive soundstage well suited to the epic music. The sound is obviously digital and lacking in midrange colour, but at least does not get in the way of appreciation. There is some surface noise, but it is minor. I give this album my highest recommendation. - In my opinion this is the best version of this release, not opaque clear, it is crystal clear vinyl, plays well, amazing
- I have in my collection the silver version and the clear, I love the clear because it is crystal clear and looks amazing.
- Highly recommended, i got the blue version, clean vinyl with no surface noise whatsoever,multilayered and with depth.
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