Browsing Archive: November, 2012

Review from Sonic Abuse

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 25, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sonic Abuse
Published: November 25, 2012
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Silent Path is the name taken by Saman N. (also known as Count De Efrit) for his solo work. Hailing from Iran, Saman takes his cues on this release from the icy, crystalline riffs of black metal and the dank atmosphere of doom.  ‘Mourner Portraits’ has had a long and painful gestation, the album originally having been written and recorded in 2009, with label problems leading to the record not actually being released despite having ...
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Review from Miasma Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Miasma Magazine
Published: November 5, 2012
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*Google translation of Finnish review

Islamic countries are known to have been quite strict in terms of cultural liberty or death threats towards artists have always just sananhelinää. Iranian Nu same alias Count De Efrit has been working on this debut album, despite a one-man black metal project they are involved Silent Pathille. The band is not the lord of the first, nor the nationality of not even in this case, the music of no i...

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Review from Ave Noctum

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ave Noctum
Published: November 2, 2012
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Iran, not the sort of place you would expect to find a black metal band hailing from is it? Looking on Metal Archives out of interest I see that Iran has 47 bands listed. To be honest even with a handful of those having split up that is still more than I expected. Can this be topped? How about S. Korea; 187 bands, Afghanistan does not even have an entry but that is still not really surprising. I guess Iran would definitely be in the top ...

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Review from Metal Delirium

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Delirium
Published: November 1, 2012
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Silent Path is a one man metal project. More to the point, a one man black metal project. Those make me nervous. One man metal projects of any kind tend to be the result of one person having so many “great” ideas that they just have to get them out. Some are great, but in a lot of cases the ideas fall short of actual musical ability(see Satanic Tony and Wintercold ). 

Silent Path falls somewhere in the middle. There is a lot of po...

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Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Aristocrazia Webzine
Published: October 14, 2012
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*Google translation of Italian review

Who remembers the Iranian project Ekove Efrits? You should not do that, here's the link that shows the review last job with that monicker weblog entitled "Conceptual Horizon". 

I'll take it away because it's the same character, Count De Efrit, I write but this time is different the dress, In fact, the musician returns in the long run its Silent Path, whose debut album "Mourner Portraits" was ...

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Review from Les Eternals

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Les Eternals
Published: September 24, 2012
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*Google translation of French review

 There are kinds riskier than others. Nowadays, it is difficult to cry genius against a new group of classic heavy metal, but as long as it aligns with some good riffs, the average fan will usually show compassion. Some minimalist styles as drone, the sludge or post-black, however, are more difficult to deal with: one group will be enough creative spark for that ranks among the talented precursors,...
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Review from Headbang Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Headbang Magazine
Published: September 23, 2012
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*Google translation of Italian review

Hypnotic Dirge Records decided to follow the second musical project concocted by Count De Efrit (just after the Ekove Efrits ), and so we find ourselves in the hands of the monicker the debut Silent Path . The disc does not surprise me too much to tell the truth, the project seems to be born as a "safety valve" of the artist who tries in every way to create a soporific music and painful. Effo...
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Review from A Dead Spot of Light E-Zine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: A Dead Spot of Light E-Zine
Published: September 13, 2012
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 Release titles are a strange thing indeed. Take this one for instance: 'Mourner Portraits'. From the first glance one would expect some kind of presentation of various types of grieving. Even though it all touches on a subject all cultures have to deal with in one way or another, it is sad to see how shallow this topic is actually presented on this album. Yet, I am misleading you, the reader, because what the band act...
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Review from Nocturnal Cult Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Nocturnal Cult Webzine
Published: September 10, 2012
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 Straight from the distant lands of Iran is the blackened doom of Silent Path. This one-man project combines fuzzed out guitars and mournful riffs with a lethargic pace to steal all warmth from your body. The album opens with the circular, funeral march of Empty Earth. Despondent moods permeate the slowly shuddering guitars and the icy synth. The distorted vocals sound as if the singer was buried in a watery grave. Filth Of...
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Review from Global Domination

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Global Domination
Published: September 4, 2012
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Silent Path is a one man black metal project from Iran helmed by Count De Efrit. The music is depressive black metal with a doomy, post metal feel. This is, for the most part, decent stuff. The music is melancholy, flowing smoothly through an atmosphere that tries to evoke hopelessness and despair and occasionally hits the mark. The problem with this album is that the 9 songs here tend to merge together and feel like one long tra...

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Review from Lords of Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lords of Metal Webzine
Published: September 1, 2012
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From Iran and the man behind Ekove Efrits comes another project called Silent Path and it’s first album called ‘Mourner Portraits’. Silent Path is depressive black metal, very depressive indeed. Slow dirge-like songs that invoke feelings of melancholy, oppression and desperation very effectively is what we get. Powerful, but simple riffs combined with effective and unobtrusive background synths easily establish this at...

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Review from ZWareMetalen

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: ZWareMetalen
Published: August 30, 2012
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*Google translation of Dutch review

 Saman N. also known as Count Efrit addition to the band Ekove Efrits have started a project called Silent Path . And here is this man the only member. The other remarkable fact is that this man come from Iran. A country where this music was soon may be sufficient for a good death. 

This depressive data relayed back to the music. Suicidal black / doom metal having in mind a band like Xasthur . Minimalis...

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Review from Feedback Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Feedback Metal Webzine
Published: August 27, 2012
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 Saman Nu’s Tehran-based Silent Path are flying the flag for Iranian metal and are currently promoting their tantalising amalgamation of black and funeral doom. Originally completed in 2009 and at last seeing the light of day through Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records, Mourner Portraits allows Nu (EkoveEfrits) to flex his creative muscle. 

On the majestic sorrow of ‘Epic Suicide’ the singer is powerful, yet vulnerable....

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Review from Lunar Hypnosis Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lunar Hypnosis Webzine
Published: August 22, 2012
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Silent Path is the solo side project of Saman "Count De Efrit" Nu, whom hails from the unlikely location of Tehran, Iran. Its interesting to receive a release from an artist from this area, especially since I recently read an article about another project from this area that had strong anti-Muslim/anti-Quran lyrics and how this person literally had to remain a 100% unknown due to the simple fact that they'd be executed if the ...

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Review from Metal Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Reviews
Published: August 20, 2012
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Probably the first album I have reviewed from Iran, where depressive/suicidal black metal has not yet achieved the arena-filling popularity it now enjoys in the West. An interesting geographical note to start, certainly, but there’s no time for the patronising assignment of kudos for coming from a country where public displays of metal-ness are repressed. In fact, Mourner Portraits is a neat illustration of the cosmopolitan nature of...

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Review from Dead Void Dreams

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Dead Void Dreams
Published: August 17, 2012
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 Count De Efrit, or else Saman Nu, is the creator of the enchanting project ‘Mourner Portraits’. The man behind Ekove Efrits, offers us the most fascinating project of the Iranian dark metal scene: the one-man band Silent Path. Unlike the works of Ekove Efrits, Silent Path has more blackened funeral doom elements, ending up to a much more depressive and melancholic sound, appropriate for the imagination’s lone wandering. Remin...
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Review from Music of Shadows Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Music of Shadows Webzine
Published: August 8, 2012
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Being a fan of Ekove Efrits I was very excited to hear what kind of depressive black and funeral doom he would create with Silent Path. 

Haunting - I think that this word describes this release well. The foggy and claustrophobic atmosphere mixed with the sad and melancholic riffs just make their way into our inner self. While listening to this release I've thought very much about the bad things that I've done and how it has af...

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Review from Alternativ-Musik

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ-Musik
Published: July 29, 2012
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*Google translation of German review

 As last year, conceptual horizon of Ekove Efrits appeared, it was a remarkable album: not only because the project came from Iran, where metal is not really seen you. Musically, it had to offer. With Mourners portraits is now published another work, with a different name, but as for Ekove Efrits for Silent Path Saman N. responsible. Musically there are some parallels to Ekove Efrits: doomy guitars ...
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Review from No Clean Singing

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: No Clean Singing
Published: July 18, 2012
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I saw that an underground Canadian label named Hypnotic Dirge Records has released an album by a one-man band based in Tehran, Iran, named Silent Path. The man is Saman Nu, who apparently has created other works under the band name Ekove Efrits. This Silent Path album is called Mourner Portraits and was originally recorded in 2009, but is now getting an official release. 

I confess that one reason I checked this out is because of the c...

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Review from MSN Entertainment; Metal Blog

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 4, 2012, In : Album Reviews 
From: MSN Entertainment; Metal Blog
Published: July 10, 2012
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The brainchild of Iranian musician Saman Nu and originally completed in 2009, Mourner Portraits is funeral doom at its bleakest, with subtle black metal influences creeping in to give the music an added edge. Atmospheric and at times harrowing, it effortlessly combines melancholy and ornate theatricality. Strange and very, very haunting. 

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SILENT PATH - MOURNER PORTRAITS 

Released: July 21, 2012
500 Copies
Depressive Black Metal/Funeral Doom

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