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Review from Pitchline Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, August 19, 2014, In : Album reviews 
From: Pitchline Webzine
Published: August 17, 2014
*Google translation of Spanish review

The eight o'clock; the thermometer twenty degrees and points. The muddy look and mood in socks, wander in the subway tunnels. Start a new day and head painfully did the work. Hot caffeinated and my fellow travelers overwhelms me breathless. However, a cold chill up my picks. The 'Sørbyen' effect, the second album from unique project of musician Steven Le Moan: Netra. 

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Review from Volumes of Sin Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, March 15, 2014, In : Album reviews 
From: Volumes of Sin Webzine
Published: March 15, 2014

Netra came from France but has moved to Norway sometime between the 2003 formation of his self-titled side project and now. His debut full-length album, Mélancolie Urbaine, caught some attention upon it's release in 2010 with the unheard of entwinement of depressive black metal with trip-hop features, but overall the record didn't cause a big of a stir in the underground as one may expect. A couple years later and Netra unleas...

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Review from Deaf Sparrow Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, In : Album reviews 
From: Deaf Sparrow Webzine
Published: January 14, 2014

Why the delay in the Sparrow reviews?  Are those guys a bunch of lazy punks around here or what?  Get with it.  In our defense, blame this album.  Sørbyen is one of the strangest things we’ve ever received, and that’s saying a ton because we’re used to it weird around here.  But Netra has crossed that line, about a million times in seventy minutes.  After his debut in 2010, he returned with this beautiful thing that comb...

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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 5

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 5
Published: November 2013
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In my opinion, such music as presented in this CD of Netra is nothing more than a searching for worms in the butt. It is a quite easily understood tendency that it could be defined as a desire to create something new, not standard, original and extraordinary. Well, that’s great, but you have to be careful when you add on some Black Metal into a mix of genres. Especially when other components even aren’t connecte...
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Review from Sic Maggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, June 6, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Sic Maggot Webzine
Published: June 5, 2013
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*Google translation of Czech review

Regarding recordings that we go to the review and not the artists with whom I have met in the past, mostly I do not have any exaggerated expectations. However, the more pleasant it is sometimes surprised when this one gets a good album, on which he would otherwise probably never gave a damn. From time to time, but it also happens to be the sort of thing occurs board that is not only good, but much b...

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Review from Melting Album Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Melting Album Reviews
Published: May 7, 2013
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In an increasingly vast world of music, it’s safe to say Netra aren’t just another band. In fact, their music is quite unlike anything I’ve had the pleasure of hearing before. Combining influences of black metal and jazz with an eerie trip hop vibe, Netra’s latest album Sørbyen is all compiled by one man. However, this is no ordinary man. This is a man, who in his darkest times began to create music to battle his demons an...

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Review from Crown of Viserys

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, April 11, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Crown of Viserys
Published: April 3, 2013
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Netra originally hailed from Kemper, France, and from that base of operations released a pair of demos that caught Nick Skog’s attention. Skog contacted Netra and released the debut album, Mélancolie Urbaine in late 2010 on his label Hypnotic Dirge Records. Since then, Netra has moved from France to Norway, and in mid-2012 the follow-up to Mélancolie Urbaine was released, Sørbyen.

Once again the beautiful structures of jazz and tr...
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Review from Necromance Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, March 29, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Necromance Webzine
Published: March 28, 2013
*Google translation of Spanish review
 
If anything stands Hypnotic Dirge Records seal is in its eagerness to edit jobs with very different styles bands or unusual proof, again, is this edition of netra , one band member who comes from French soil and with this "Sorbyen" take your 2nd job. This is a work that, over the 12 tracks, does not hesitate to combine styles like Black Metal, jazz, electronic music, sounds depressive, ... all ...

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Review from Hallowed.se

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, March 24, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Hallowed.se
Published: March 22, 2013
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One man bands from France seems to be the thing I have these days, just the other day it was Deathronic and now it is Netra. I think though that the similarities end there as Deathronic is a lot more conventional and Netra is nowadays Norwegian as the man behind it has moved to Norway and I suppose we can say hence the name of the second album. I would have to say that cover artworks is not something that is the thing of this man, both al...
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Review from Nocturnal Cult Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Nocturnal Cult Webzine
Published: February 12, 2013
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France's eclectic and eccentric entity, Netra return with its sophomore effort, Sorbyen.  The album is beautifully enigmatic as the music shifts through degrees of melancholic black metal painted with strokes of ambient and trip-hop styles.  From the dark and sultry piano and emotive, sung vocals that take you on a nocturnal sojourn for the first segment of A Dance With The Asphalt to the sinister, yet melodic black metal of...
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Review from Metal Revolution Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, February 4, 2013, In : Album reviews 
From: Metal Revolution Webzine
Published: February 4, 2013
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About two years ago Netra released their monumental debut album Mélancolie Urbaine. Now the project/band returns with a new opus entitled Sørbyen (named after a neighbourhood in Gjøvik, Norway).

The album contains 12 tracks and alone its title should give you a hint; this is Norwegian inspired black metal! Actually, their influences are wide and ranging from the moodiest jazz to black metal and trip-hop. Meanwhile one thi...
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Review from Don't Count on it Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, December 27, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Don't Count on it Reviews
Published: December 25, 2012
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About two years ago or so Netra released its debut full-length Mélancolie Urbaine into the metal underground to a pretty select audience. I don't mean that in a bad way, but it was a pretty interesting little album that was not for everyone. Now we have the follow-up to that album with a sound that mainman Steven Le Moan experimenting even further with the tricks of black metal.
I think it's fair to say that Netra's firs...
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Review from Pest Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, December 22, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Pest Webzine/Slowly We Rot Issue 3
Published: December 20, 2012
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From my point of view the best Hypnotic Dirge artist to date, netra, is back with the second album, a followup to their highly-acclaimed "Mélancolie urbaine" debut. This time we're treated with 70 minutes of its strange combination of Depressive (Post) Black Metal with Trip-Hop and Ambient, something only the ones of you deeply open-minded will dig. Although this time there are less memorable tracks, the ones pr...
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Review from ThreNodies Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, December 9, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: ThreNodies Webzine
Published: December 9, 2012
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About two years ago, I received one of the most impressive debut record I’ve ever heard. This piece of art featured a completely new style of black metal, which was mixed with trip hop influences, you probably never heard before. There was a huge thrill of anticipation according his new record called Sørbyen, which features an impressive total playing time of 70:23 minutes! Will it be able to follow the footsteps of its predec...
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Review from Lords of Metal E-Zine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, December 3, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Lords of Metal E-Zine
Published: December 3, 2012
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French one-man outfit Netra is back with a second album after the interesting Mélancholie Urbaine, called Sørbyen Netra plays some kind of hybrid between depressive black metal, ambient, trip-hop and whatever pops up in his mind. This makes the makes rather eclectic although there is an overarching sense of depression throughout the album. Even blues elements made their way onto the album, which surprisingly suits the depres...
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Review from The Pit of the Damned

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, December 2, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: The Pit of the Damned
Published: December 2, 2012
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*Google translation of Italian review

To many of you the name Netra not say anything, to me it says a lot, and for that fact I was waiting at the gate with their second effort, always Hypnotic Dirge Records license plate. The one band French band returns with an impressive work of 70 minutes, there and then left me quite puzzled, for its content. To be honest at first, maybe the second, but also the third listen, I was disappoi...
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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...


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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...

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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...
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.
 
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Review from Hymnes Funeraires

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Hymnes Funeraires
Published: October 24, 2012
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 Netra is a strange and unique entity in this obscure and underground metal scene. The influences vary from depressive black metal, moody jazz passages, black metal to trip hop. Yeah, I know … black metal and trip-hop, that’s new.
Sørbyen, released in September 2012 by Hypnotic Dirge Records continues the experimental path of the previous full length album and it still is a very exotic, yet strange release, even for 2012.
Sørb...

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Review from Lunar Hypnosis Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, October 19, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Lunar Hypnosis Webzine
Published: October 17, 2012
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Netra, the solo project of one, Steven Le Moan from Brittany, France surprised me in a big way back in 2010 through his debut album, 'Mélancolie Urbaine.' Essentially combining trip hop with portions of depressive black metal, it was a unique and memorable release, which sounds odd in writing, but somehow the formula worked quite well. Named after a neighborhood in Gjøvik, Norway where Steven recently lived, 'Sørbyen' buil...

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Review from Black Belle Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, October 13, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Black Belle Webzine
Published: October 11, 2012
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 One of the most unusual and unique offerings ever to be encountered here at Black Belle Music would have to be the sophomore full length album 'Soerbyen' from French one man entity Netra.

Another project on the versatile Hypnotic Dirge Records roster Netra is the work of Steven LeMoan-all music and vocals- and where this remarkable creation plys its trade is in the very incongruous meld of genres between experimental black metal...

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Review from Metal.de

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, October 13, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Metal.de
Published: October 10, 2012
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*Google translated version of German review

 That for reasons of ill-feeling from France relocates to Norway, I can understand that. The slightly sweet life in Brittany against the exchange in the wilderness of Scandinavia is a cultural balancing act, which is reflected both in the only on second glance very cool cover, and in the music of entertainer NETRA. In any case it is one that works well. This second NETRA album "Sørbyen" of epic 7...
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Review from Pure Grain Audio

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Pure Grain Audio
Published: September 12, 2012

Hypnotic Dirge Productions seems to continually release high-quality albums from a variety of different artists. Many of the albums they release are by bands a little more, shall we say eclectic, with artists who like to experiment and push the boundaries of their respective genres.

Netra's Sørbyen is however, by far the strangest release that I have heard from HDR yet. The album melds black metal with genres such as jazz, trip h...

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Review from Infernal Masquerade Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, September 8, 2012, In : Album reviews 
From: Infernal Masquerade Webzine 
Published: May 28, 2012 
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Delivering one of the weirdest, yet most exciting releases of 2012, today we have Netra and its (one man band) second full-length release “Sørbyen”. Mixing elements of Black Metal with some Trip-hop influences, we are immediately reminded of a mixture of older and newer Ulver, without totally breaking character and changing identity. Each track in this release sways you one way, but it suddenly changes direction into ...

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                       NETRA - SØRBYEN 


Released: September 29, 2012
1000 Copies
Alternative Black Metal/Trip-hop


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