Band: NebUnaM
Title: NebUnaM
Label: Karge Welten Kunstverlag
Release date: 2010
Review: MCD

NebUnaM are named after both members, yet inversed: multi-instrumentalist / composer Ben (the same guy who’s involved with, for example, Eventyr) and vocalist Manu (Manuel, as a matter of fact). These guys started this mutual project almost ten years ago, but nothing huge has been released since then. In 2003, NebUnaM released a self-produced one-track demo, called A Winter’s Tale, which appears on this mini-album too.
This title-less two-tracker was initially released in May 2008, but now gets re-released in a re-mastered edition (done by A.O.D. at the Temple Of Disharmony). Both hymns last between ten and fifteen minutes and are mostly interesting. Indeed, this is a worthy and necessary re-release!
The songs, A Winter’s Tale and Sturm (respectively in English and German, as the titles suggest), bring straight (Pagan) Black Metal with an organic yet extremely chilly and haunting underground-oriented sound, which gives the whole a wonderful Nordic touch of winterly mysticism. Both songs are comparable, yet at the same time rather diverse too. Not only the difference in tempo (A Winter’s Tale is rather doomish, Sturm sounds lovely stormy), but also the atmosphere: the first one integer and natural-melancholic, the second one warlike and battle-lusting, somewhere between Nargaroth, Burzum and Forgotten Woods.
This mesmerising recording is ELITE, it is darkness, passion, epic, it is a monument.

90/100

Ivan Tibos.