NEBULUNG - Palingenesis

Palingenesis is a album of melancholic beauty. The beginning flow of it really touches my black heart. Nebelung's songwriting paints a picture of fallen leaves and other symbols of poetic sadness. But still, after a song and a half I get bored, I blame it on the dominating guitars that repeat the theme within each song, in the end, too many times. The other instruments are there only to support the guitars that hardly allow the other string instruments to flow.

Exception from this is the last song of the album "Innerlichkeit" where cello and violin take over and create a very strong piece. But before that, halfway through the album I am getting irritated. Until "Wandlung", the longest song of Palingenesis(as it should be), slows everything down and really creates the feeling of having lost a loved one. "Wandlung" is a truly beautiful song that changes and evolves, a soft drone opens for a minimal guitar, whose simple tones express stoic grief for quite a while but right before it has gone on for too long it fades away and opens for another theme, a stronger one, a rise from the ashes, a continuation, because whatever happens, life will go on. [Temple Of Torturous]
- Sigurður Harðarson

Nebelung – Palingenesis Album Teaser from Bakalm Radio on Vimeo.