LANTLÔS — .neon (review)

LANTLÔS — .neon album cover Album · 2010 · Atmospheric Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Vehemency
Lantlôs’ debut album provided some sweet avantgardish and somewhat depressive black metal and now on the second album, .neon, Herbst continues his exploration of urban decay. It is respectable how well he handles all the instruments: the drumming still shines with its somewhat complex rhythm patterns (”These Nights Were Ours”) and fierce, tight blast beats, and he also succeeds with the Lantlôs trade mark guitar sound - buzzy, droney guitar work of which melodies are sometimes hard to distinguish on first several spins.

On .neon, we can hear some almost jazzy, jamming parts such as in the beginning of the album when ”Minusmensch” kicks in, and during the third track ”Pulse / Surreal” that is also one of the highlight moments on the album. I had my doubts about Neige singing on this album (I wouldn’t have wanted to hear a half-assed Amesoeurs duplicate) but he does good job anyways delivering both clean singing and his unique screaming. Despite the fact that Lantlôs has now such a known person handling vocal duties, .neon still sounds as Lantlôs as always.

I’m afraid .neon is not as captivating record as its predecessor was - this album seems to have a lack of some seriously good melodies - but it is a worthy album anyways. I am almost certainly sure that fans of post-rockish / shoegazing black metal will consider this as pure joy for their ears. I am not as convinced as I wanted to be but my expectations might have been too high. I think there is already a third album coming up and I’m definitely willing to hear in which direction they go from here.
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