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Max Birbaum has ever composed. LUNAR SHADOW album. The
six songs found herein are
You may now ask about the interwoven with melody and
lyrics. Well it could be obvious darkness. There is a greater
that the lyrics reflect Birbaum’s emphasis on vocals as well as
world. But as a listener I would the rhythmic aspects of LUNAR
like to point how this whole SHADOW, who are completed by
album reflected to me and what vocalist Robert Röttig, second
Label:
kind of pictures and atmosphores guitarist K. Hamacher, bassist S. Label:
were genereted in my mind Hamacher and drummer J. Zehner. Cruz Del Sur Music
Released Year:
after listenings and listenings: R eleased Y ear:
“Wish to Leave” was recorded from 2021
Type:
The album offers a strange kind July to November 2020 in Leipzig T ype:
of “Big City escapism”. Here we under the careful eye of engineer Full-length
Tracklist:
are not dealing with mystical or / producer Max Herrmann; V. T racklist:
dark fantasy concepts (a world Santura of DARK FORTRESS and 1. Serpents Die
that was explored in deep on TRYPTIKON fame mastered the 2. Delomelanicon
the previous Lunar albums), at album. The sound is fantastic. 3. I Will Lose You
least not in the album’s entierty. 4. To Dusk and I
There is something else in here: To cut a long story sort the album Love You
It is our wide prison -the Big is a masterpiece. Grab it as soon 5. And Silence
City- firstly revisited through the as possible and dive in its dark Screamed
cold melodies of the songs and world. You will never regret it. 6. The Darkness
secondly through the lyrics. It is Between the Stars
the long distance night walks, As far as the questions that
when parts of the cty become have been set in the review’s
stranger -letting us discover beginning: Leave? From what?
signs that are hidden by the – It’s better to give your own
daylight and yes this point could answers don’t you think? All an
be in a way the mystical part of all when we leave something
the whole isntalment but this behind we are marching forward
depends to each and everyone for something new, that is the
of you-. It is the night hours on only sure thing, or maybe not.
the same room with candles
and Vodka where the same
questions come into the mind Keep up with
again and again. The reasons LUNAR SHADOW
of such questioning could be
many and Birbaum in particular
brings into the foreground the
love, the friendship and the
complexity of relationships
as subjects in questioning.
You can bring your own…
Well here it is folks. The new
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