Browsing Archive: November, 2012

Review from Miasma Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 26, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Miasma Magazine
Published: November 26, 2012
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*Google translation of Finnish review

French to blow this time with very different ideas. In 2010, his debut album, Mélancolie Urbaine, published Netra persuaded genre definitions appear to be already at that time, but now once you move in degrees in deeper waters. Melancholic jazz, black metal, post-rock and trip-hop Combining sheet music, feel free to examine the limit. Experimentalism, despite Netra However, we can create an e...

Review from Midwinter Fires 'Zine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 25, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Midwinter Fires 'Zine
Published: November 25, 2012
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A call for you, open-minded people out there: here we have something you can really appreciate. “Sørbyen” by Netra is another “peculiar” release from the inspired Hypnotic Dirge Records, a label that goes on with excellent music. Netra is a strange entity, but it bears, in my opinion, the seed to become a big thing. A strange entity, I said…well, is a project with several influences, from jazz and trip hop to black...
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Review from Global Domination 'zine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, November 15, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Global Domination 'zine
Published: November 15, 2012
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Netra is a French one man black metal project with electronic influences and “Sørbyen” is the second album to come from this moniker. The music here basically uses depressive black metal as the bedrock on which various clean acoustic parts, electronics and a slight goth rock feel all sit. The songs are at their best when its acoustic based melancholic laments or when the whole electronica option is being explored. The ...
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Review from Music of Shadows Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 12, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Music of Shadows Webzine
Published: November 12, 2012
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First of all..the black metal elitists should stop reading.....now!

This is not Your everyday black metal with raw, hate filled riffs and blastbeats.

This is something more it's like Akira Yamaoka experimenting with black metal, trip-hop, jazz etc.

(me being a huge Akira fan this is a big compliment).

Anyway, this album is so, I'd say, abstract and filled with many different sounds. It has a huge replay value. The songs are a...

Review from Metal Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, November 10, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Metal Reviews
Published: November 10, 2012
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A bit like the strange Swiss band Blutmond (who also have a new one coming out), Netra drag black metal away from the rural word, and set it loose in nocturnal cityscapes. Their last release- Melancolie Urbaine- was a strange, eclectic album, peppered with fragments of saloon jazz and electronica that evoked sleazy urban existence in much the same way that their peers use acoustic interludes as a short-cut to pastoral atmosphere. Bec...

Review from Alternativ-Musik Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Alternativ Musik Webzine
Published: November 5, 2012
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*Google translation of German review

After Netra on melancholy Urbaine seem to have put on at night in the middle of an unfamiliar city, you have it then but somehow managed to get out of the urban jungle. The problem is: If you have it out of the a nightmare lands you in the next. Because Sørbyen may be different from its predecessor, but it may also show the cover of the light of day in a more rural landscape in the backg...

Review from Ave Noctum

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Ave Noctum
Published: November 5, 2012
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“Boredom ruins my life” screams the message in the album’s notes. With their disparate styles, Netra seem to be aiming at dispelling the boredom while reflecting it at the same time with their depictions of “fading nature and urban depression”. The title of their previous release in 2010, “Mélancolie Urbaine”, is a good starting point for this album.

The picture on the sleeve of “Sørbyen” is of an guy sitting on a hil...

Review from Metal Soundscapes

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, November 3, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Metal Soundscapes
Published: November 1, 2012
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Netra is the personal project of Steven Le Moan from France. He started this band in 2003 and after 2 demos he raised the interest of the Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records. So, in the end of 2010 the debut album “Mélancolie Urbaine” was out, making quite an impression with its unusual blend of depressive black metal, jazz and trip-hop! Now, after 2 years in Norway, netra return with their second full-length album “Sørb...

Review from Empyre-Mag

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, November 3, 2012, In : Album reviews

From: Empyre-Mag
Published: October 30, 2012
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*Google translation of German Review

Norway over the snow, cold and SATYRICON has to offer is no longer a secret. That, in their zest's Musical and create include inevitably tip of the iceberg as there is nothing new. But again and again to beat itself has become almost impossible for one might think. But this Norwegian has French roots and shows here with his second work what happens if a Frenchman Norway air sniffs.

Since I took simply ...