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Dordeduh - Har

 

Let's start with the band's name. Combining the word ‘Dor' (the yearning for something; the lack of something) with the term for spirit ‘Duh' – according to the musicians, this amalgamation represents the struggle to express those meaningful values that make us human by uniting the soul and the spirit.

 Not content to have put Romania on the heavy metal map as the creative engine of Negura Bunget,  Edmond "Hupogrammos" Karban and Sol Faur aka Cristian Popescu set off to redefine metal-ish music entirely. Given the difficulty people (myself included) seem to have in pinning this album down to a single (or a couple) genre, I think they might have succeeded.

Dark folk, black metal, folk metal, psych rock, prog pop - everything goes into this stew. This, to me, has heavy heavy vibes of PELICAN or RED SPAROWES, but transported back in time to the early 1960s, where they, not Pink Floyd, record Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Which is of course, the best rock album of the 20th century (fight me Beatles-stans, Beach Boys hipsters, and Rogers Waters fanbois)


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Location: Timișoara, Romania

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