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Morth are a solo project from Bulgaria that plays a very melodic, epic and atmospheric form of black metal and this is a review of his 2015 album "Towards the Endless Path" which will be released on December 14th as a joint effort between Symbol Of Domination Productions and Acclaim Records.
A very melodic, epic and atmospheric sound starts off the album along with some synths and grim screams and you can also hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the recording along with the guitar solos and leads utilizing a great amount of melody and most of the tracks are very long and epic in length.
Most of the music sticks to either a slow or mid paced direction while the synths also mix in a small amount of symphonic and ambient elements at times while some of the guitar riffs do have a raw edge to them and you can also hear a great amount of talent and skill in the way the guitar solos and leads are performed and one track brings in a brief use of spoken word parts and on one of the tracks the music does speed up briefly.
Morth plays a style of black metal that is very slow and heavy while also being very melodic, epic and atmospheric at the same time, the production sounds very powerful while the lyrics cover death, eternity, human soul, pain, life and spirit.
In my opinion Morth are a very great sounding epic, atmospheric and melodic black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Dark Dawn Arise" "The Black Fog Of Times".
http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.ru/2015/12/morthtowards-endless-pathsymbol-of.html
Morth is a one-man Black Metal band from Bulgaria. This is his début album.
This album has plenty of occult melodies for the listener to enjoy. Sometimes these melodies can seem quite jaunty or folksy, which is a nice touch among the overall darkened vibes that Morth creates.
The long songs have an epic feel and there’s plenty of atmosphere to soak up here. The music is expansive and seems to revel in a certain primitive sophistication that some of the early Black Metal bands found themselves experimenting with. It’s the kind of music that makes me feel nostalgic and never fails to raise a grim smile.
Synths and keyboards are never too far from the action, wrapping the twisting melodies in their dark embrace.
Vocally we get trademark Black Metal croaking screams that fit the music perfectly. These vocals are absolutely of the classic style and go hand in hand with the classic atmospheric music.
This is well-constructed atmospheric Black Metal with a nice line in melodies and uplifting leads and synths.
https://wonderboxmetal.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/morth-towards-the-endless-path-review/
(Symbol Of Domination) No, non siamo di fronte ad una band lombarda con il senso dell’umorismo, i Morth sono Bulgari e bazzicano il territorio nazionale ormai da più di un decennio. Formatisi nel 2002 e con solo un demo targato 2004, si son finalmente decisi a comporre un’opera completa. Di sicuro la scrittura dei sei pezzi che compongono il disco non sembra delineare troppa foga e il lavoro certosino di scrittura si sente tutto. Una voce graffiata troneggia su una chitarra al centro dell’attenzione, parte ritmica e basso leggermente in secondo piano. Il genere proposto è quel Black imbastardito con il Death di matrice norvegese che a onor di cronaca risulta piuttosto datato e anacronistico come suono. Specifichiamo che questo ultimo elemento può essere visto tanto come pregio quanto come difetto, a seconda dei punti di vista musicali dell’ascoltatore, ma in entrambi i casi sono sicuro che il marcato carattere epico con cui è impostato l’intero platter non deluderà nessun estimatore di musica estrema.
http://www.metalhead.it/?p=69281
Οι Morth μας έρχονται από τη γειτονική Βουλγαρία και το “Towards The Endless Path” είναι η παρθενική τους κυκλοφορία από την Acclaim Records σε συνεργασία με την Symbol Of Domination Productions.
Δεν έχουμε να κάνουμε με πλήρες συγκρότημα αλλά με one man’s band, κάτι το οποίο είναι δυστυχώς παραπάνω από εμφανές στην ακρόαση του δίσκου. Αφήνοντας στην άκρη το εκνευριστικό drum machine που χαλάει κάθε έννοια ρυθμού και αποτελεί ίσως τη μεγαλύτερη παραφωνία του άλμπουμ, έχουμε μια προσπάθεια για μελωδικό black metal με αρκετά πληκτρα.
Οι όποιες ιδέες υπάρχουν είναι εντελώς ασύνδετες μεταξύ τους, σα να ακούμε σκόρπια και μέτρια μάλιστα riff, τα φωνητικά φλερτάρουν με τον χαρακτηρισμό του κωμικού ενώ οι στιγμές που ο συμπαθής Βούλγαρος πίσω από τους Morth προσπαθεί να σολάρει προσφέρουν άφθονο γέλιο.
Δε γνωρίζω κατά πόσο είναι εύκολο να βρει αξιόλογους μουσικούς και συνεργάτες στη χώρα του αλλά αυτό φαντάζει ως η μόνη λύση για μελλοντική βελτίωση. Μέχρι τότε μακριά κι αγαπημένοι…
http://reckoninghour.com/morth-towards-the-endless-path/
Bulgarian black metal master of atmosphere Morth, who have been active since 2002 but only record his first full length record last year, brings ‘Towards the Endless Path’ to the table, out now on Symbol of Domination.
Stretching over an hour, ‘Towards the Endless Path’ is a haunting, hypnotic record of ghostly black metal, built around the lessons of Drudkh or Wolves in the Throne Room. Morth is more raw than that, more primal, and there is a distinct icy coldness about tracks like ‘Cold Moonlight Mysticism’ and the harsh ‘Dark Dawn Rise’. Each songs builds the cloying, murky atmosphere, and the snarling growl gargles with the sodden blood of Morth’s victims.
‘Towards the Endless Path’ is a fine album, with plenty of variety in there to help hold your attention. ‘Echoes of Ancient Winds’ is a vast piece, with a simple yet ear worming melody in the middle that stays with you. Atmospheric black metal can be hit or miss with me sometimes, but Morth hit the spot. Maybe it’s my mood today, but this kind of spacious, haunting music is perfect. It just needs a little trimming length wise, but that’s a nitpick of mine with a lot of these style of records.
It’s a little long for such a simplistic, atmospheric black metal album, but those who stick it out to the end will be rewarded with a gloomy slab of primal black metal, replete with interesting bleak melodies hiding in amongst each crevice of blackness. Conjuring images of Carpathian forests decked in snow and darkness, Morth’s debut has been a long time coming, and yet it feels like a triumph.
https://thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/review-morth-towards-the-endless-path/
Morth è il monicker di questa one man band attiva dal 2002 proveniente dalla Bulgaria e fondata dal polistrumentista Erilyne, musicista attivo in molte band della scena estrema del suo paese.
Towards The Endless Path è il primo full length e segue il demo uscito un paio di anni fa e che ha dato il via alla discografia di Morth.
Lungo ed epico viaggio nel black metal dal taglio melodico, l’album si sviluppa per più di un’ora immerso nel leggendario mondo di una terra di mezzo raccontata attraverso lunghi mid tempo tastieristici, con la gracchiante voce di questo menestrello del male ed accompagnata da un’aura epica.
Il musicista bulgaro se la cava sia con gli strumenti che con un songwriting che pur essendo prolisso mantiene una buona tensione e non stanca.
Qualche lacuna in fase di produzione non inficia la riuscita globale dell’album che alterna black, heavy e dark metal con buona ispirazione.
Orchi, maghi e stregoni ci attendono tra le montagne incantate di questa terra di fantasia, tra valli verdeggianti e cime innevate, il mood dell’album riporta alla mente opere come Il Signore Degli Anelli o Il Trono Di Spade, mondi di guerre, magia e lotte secolari tra il bene ed il male.
La sei corde richiama l’heavy metal classico, qualche rallentamento atmosferico il dark metal, mentre le sempre presenti armonie tastieristiche danno al sound un taglio epico ed oscuro.
I brani superano per gran parte i dieci minuti di durata, perciò l’ascolto necessita di concentrazione e l’album più giri nel lettore per essere fatto proprio, ma il risultato è soddisfacente, specialmente per gli amanti del genere.
Mortiis, Summonning ed Immortal sono i gruppi che maggiormente escono dai solchi di brani dalla riuscite atmosfere epic fantasy come Dark Dawn Arise, Shadows from Ancient Battles e Towards the Endless Path of War; non fatevi spaventare dalla durata dell’opera e provate ad immergervi nel mondo di Morth.
http://www.iyezine.com/morth-towards-the-endless-path
Bulgarian epic atmospheric black one-man metal band realised the album. This album is dark melodic atmospheric black metal masterpiace.
On this album it can be heard this dark melodic music combined with atmospheric music, creating this this powerful melodic atmospheric sound that is unigue, special, dark and strange in some moments. Tehnical compliance is brought to ideal, acoustic is great, production is awesome.
The combination of melodic atmosepheric sound with true raw black metal sound, created a something very interesting, a melodic music that present’s the essence of black metal, melodic music that became raw with the combination with black metal. The vocal is raw pure black metal vocal and there are clean vocals that are amazing and awesome too, and the vocals are integrated phenomenally with the hole hole album, and the songs themeself’s. This album will take you to a place of darkness,evil, death, war, chaos, apocyplpse.
Morth is anonymos band that desirves a lot of attention of public and listeners. This musician is a awesome musician, that created, true melodic atmospheric black metal music masterpiace in the best way.
http://demon-reports.com/wp/2016/05/16/morth-towards-endless-path/
Direction la Bulgarie pour le premier album de Morth, où Georgi Georgiev officie seul au manche. Avec une pochette pareille, on s’attendrait à ce que Towards The Endless Path soit un alias de Saor ou - dans un autre style - Summoning. Mais il n’en est rien. Morth pratique un Black Metal plus trve que trve, mélodique, parfois symphonique, mais toujours très brut.
Les claviers sont vieillots, le chant criard et bien old school, les mélodies basiques et répétitives. Les fans de Black mélodico-symphonique de la première heure seront rassurés. Rien n’a véritablement changé.
Morth n’innove pas, c’est clair et net. Non, ce qu’aime Georgi ce sont les bonnes vieilles recettes scandinaves avec un style à la fois suranné et mélancolique. Mais souvenez-vous, on a eu le droit au même topo l’an passé avec le groupe portugais de Joel Fausto intitulé Forgotten Winter. Il semblerait donc que la farce se répète, à la manière d’une ritournelle sans fin.
Pourtant, il faut avouer que Forgotten Winter bénéficiait d’un petit plus « épique » qui donnait de l’ampleur au propos nostalgique. Ici point « d’épique », juste du Black Mélodique à l’ancienne, avec des pistes montant souvent jusqu’aux douze minutes fatidiques.
Difficile d’être séduit, à moins d’être un véritable inconditionnel de cette vague scandinave. On est donc rapidement lassé par les mélodies, et surtout le chant qui devient vite agaçant.
Des groupes comme Cripta Oculta, Forgotten Winter ou encore Korium arrivent à faire revivre ce style mélodique brut et fané, parce qu’ils donnent un nouveau souffle par leur côté folklorique pour l’un, épique pour l’autre et Ambient pour le dernier. Qu’en est-il pour Morth ? Rien de tout cela malheureusement. On reste simple et lisse.
Towards The Endless Path est un album pour les nostalgiques de la vague mélodico-symphonique scandinave des années 90 uniquement. Les autres, préférez les groupes cités plus haut.
http://auxportesdumetal.com/reviews/Morth/morth-towardstheendlesspathmorth.html
Morth is a one-man army formed in the Bulgarian city of Sandanski, in the far South-West of the country, close to the Greek and Macedonian borders. The project was born almost a decade and a half ago by Georgi ‘Erilyne’ Georgiev, but the guy moved over to North America in mean time. This guy is / was also involved with bands and projects such as Raggradahr, Exile, 88, Aryan Art (as permanent session musician) or Aeonless, amongst several others (note: on December 24th 2015 I uploaded a review I did for Aeonless’ fabulous Underearth Horizons album; a top-release for sure, and on January 24th 2015 we published Raggradahr’s Oris, both of them released via e.g. mighty Vacula).
Under the Morth banner, not that much happened in the past, despite the many years of existence. In Summer 2014 there was the demonstrational recording Ocean Underground, which was released via Georgi’s own label Acclaim Records (which did relocate to the U.S. too, evidently), and the very same label, in a partnership with Symbol Of Domination Productions, is now to release the debut full length album, called Toward The Endless Path. The album is limited to an edition of 500 copies, and it lasts for sixty-five (!) minutes (six titles). And before going deeper into the aural side of Toward The Endless Path, I’d like to refer to the magic and mysterious artwork – which actually shows a glimpse of the sonic content of the album!
The album brings a highly melodious and atmospheric form of Black Metal. The atmospheric elements are mainly brought through the soft synth lines, who play a role especially at the background. These keyboards are permanently present, yet never taking over the lead (with exception, evidently, for some intros, outros and intermezzi). That lead is courtesy of the multi-lined twin guitar melodies. Because of these prominent and firmly present guitar lines, everything gets a certain epic touch, referring to many other projects Erilyne is involved with. All this gets strengthened by a supportive rhythm section: melodic rhythm guitars (sometimes a not-that-discordant counterbalance to the main leads), a dense bass guitar (unfortunately too much at the background mix-wise), and non-adventurous yet nicely-following drum structures and patterns. And on top of it, I think the vocals are top-notch. Erilyne’s screams are of a thundering-rolling kind, raspy and hoarse, but truly bone-chilling.
The lengthy compositions never ‘explode’, and this goes for two things. Firstly I mean with ‘never explode’ that the tempo maintains mid-tempo for about the whole of the time. There is a certain level of energy going on, but that hasn’t to do with blasting eruptions. To be honest, I do miss some more variation in speed, especially seen the long duration of each piece on Toward The Endless Path. Secondly I am afraid that there are not exactly fabulous memorable excerpts on the album. In general, the whole journey slowly continues, without leaving the listener (in this case: me) blown away…
But… This might seem more negative than I exactly think. Despite a certain lack of suspense, this album surely stands out within this specific sub-genre. Atmospheric Black Metal often turns into a level of semi-pathetic melancholy. That’s not the case right here. Seen the length of the hymns, you never get the feeling that it lasts too long, you never fade away into inevitable boredom.
Once in a while I have the impression that Morth try to seek inspiration by Austrian duo Summoning. Many projects try to do so – some succeed, many fail. Morth does not exactly reach that level, but then again they do not sound like a Summoning-clone at all. It’s just a source of inspiration, to my opinion, created to inject the own-faced identity of the project. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, and in Morth’s case that’s a rather successful formula.
http://www.concreteweb.be/reviews/morth
Por razones que desconozco absolutamente, el black metal debe ser el género donde más proliferan las bandas de un solo integrante. Morth es una de ellas, donde el búlgaro Georgi Georgiev se erige como único ejecutante de este “Towards the endless path”, un álbum extenso de más de una hora de duración donde Erilyne (nombre artístico del mencionado Georgiev) nos propone un viaje largo y épico de metal negro y melódico con atisbos sinfónicos.
No soy muy gustador de los discos tan largos en su duración, considero que la media de los 40 minutos es suficiente, pero también entiendo que a veces la historia a contar necesita de esos minutos extras. Y este parece ser uno de esos casos, ya que desde la magnífica portada la sensación es de una historia donde orcos, magos y brujas confluyen en magníficas montañas, verdes valles y picos nevados, pero es solo una pantalla que cubre maldad, oscuridad y dolor.
Señores, esto es black metal para eruditos, no lo dejen pasar.
http://rockarollazine.blogspot.ru/2016/12/morth-towards-endless-path-2015-symbol.html
Morth play an agonizing yet symphonic style of black metal, which harkens back to the early days of Enslaved, Dimmu Borgir, Abyssos and Sear Bliss.
The six tracks on this album add up to 65 minutes worth of haunting and chilling black metal music, which at times comes across as a B-Rated horror flick soundtrack. Musically, this bunch is nothing out of ordinary, as their guitars feature the standard down tuned guitar rhythms and riffs played at mid-tempo. And the raspy vocals are nothing new either, as this was perfected by the likes of Enslaved and Dimmu Borgir in the mid-nineties.
“Towards The Endless Path” has an interesting, epic feel going within its somber guitar harmonies and depressive song arrangements… “Echoes Of Ancient Winds” sounds so eastern European with its orchestrated passages and victorious-sounding guitars and synthesizers. This song reminds of watching movies like Excalibur, Othello and Cinderella.
The six songs on this album are somewhat different from one another, but you can tell it is Morth playing their symphonic black metal, which is cool, but nothing that’ll move mountains.
However, this band should be given credit for at least trying, as black metal nowadays has become too populated with mediocre and bands pretending to be like the first generation of black metal masters.
Болгарский one man проект, который начал функционировать еще в 2002-ом году. Но демку издал в 14-ом, а полноформат — в 15-ом, об этом сообщает сайт метал арховов. Сабжевый диск был реализован Symbol Of Domination, сублейблом Сатанат рекордс, совместно с конторой Acclaim Records, которая когда-то, видимо, была болгарской, а стала американской).
MORTH ваяет атмосферный блак в больших количествах, объемах, временных рамках, — чтобы мало не показалось. Добавляя мелодичности, а точнее — руководствуясь мелодическим началом для создания каждого трака.
Первый же трак — длиною почти в 13 минут, эпически и мрачно обуреваемый клавишными прогонами, которые никак не пожелали упасть на мажор, а лишь уверенно и упорно ломили тему «холодного мистицизма лунного света». Так, собственно, и компо называется. Почти минималистическими мазками наносит на полотно композер MORTH далеко не светлые настроения, сооружает плоть произведения, в котором неторопливо дефилирует скриминг, как полагается, эффектный, но слегка придушенный или задавленный. Кстати, надо заметить, что вокал работает рядом с партиями клавишных, озаряя их подозрительным светом — будто бы из преисподней, кроме установленного по умолчанию света лунного.
Далее следует компо на 12 минут. Уловили? Автор не собирается экономить на чувствах, и его идеи требуют времени для того, чтобы проложить эту железную дорогу в тому месту металлера, где должна располагаться его душа. Эта композиция оказалась мелодически еще более мрачной, ибо тут ввернули синтезатором по низким частотам, что дало эффект грохотания в границах нижнего мира.
Вокаллер MORTH продолжил в своем фирменном стиле отрабатывать умопомрачительные тексты, и его расщепленный тембральный окрас оказывается не только брендовая фишка группы, но и эмоциональная точка сборки этого диска, куда собираются силовые грани архитектурного замысла, но и откуда идет злобное излучение — как дьявольская заготовка к ритуалу. Такой замысел композера читается уже к средине второй компо, а потом на последующих прослушиваниях меломан будет уже готов соответствовать данному идейному заряду.
Кстати, к указанному промежутку — середине второго трака, приурочена и своеобразная отметка — сюда примощена эмбиентальная вставка в серых тонах, с небольшой партией «почти духовых» клавишных, которая подозреваю и стала спусковым крючком к скоротечному вовлечению слушателя во внутренний ад компакта.
Далее музыкант MORTH массивно эксплуатирует эпическую составляющую, нафаршированную этническими заготовками, переработанными безжалостным настроением композера в структуры, в которых утонувшие фолковые чудеса лишь виднеются краем из полного саунд-резервуара.
Сложность и многослойность аудиального посыла MORTH далее нарастают по одной, только автору известной, формуле, а также усилиями студийных инженеров звук распахивается, как гигантская пасть растения мухоловки, готовая к улавливанию любого дышащего и теплокровного существа. И много-layer-ность далее близится к симфо-претензиям, но, по-моему, счастливо не пересекает это рубеж, ибо это уже совершенно другая песня.
Ко всему прочему, уже к середине диска становится понятно, что какие бы яркие мелодии не использовал композер, силой своего очарования он превращает их в черные рисунки на темной подложке, насильно трансформируя «позитив» в оболочки для мрака, ужаса и мизантропического аудиального действа.
Более часа месмеризующего эпического атмосферик блака. Под настроение MORTH зайдет на отлично.
I am not a great fantasy fan so I have no idea if this band’s name is a fictional character or if is it a mythical character but I gotta say that it does fit with both the art work and the album title. There is something otherworldly to this whole release that intrigues me. And I was right in assuming that this would be something more. This is atmospheric black metal. The kind that paints a picture so grand and beautiful that you have to listen to this with your eyes closed. This is for those of us that like bands like Svarthi Loghin, An Autumn For Crippled Children and the likes.
http://battlehelm.com/reviews/morth-towards-the-endless-path/
Beautiful and enchanting, that's what Morth's "Towards the Endless Path" can be described despite all the saying that atmospheric black metal is now underrated and trendy but who cares? This Bulgarian one man band struggled on his own from 2002 to complete the recordings and by completing this album, one year after the release of "Ocean Underground" demo in 2014. Eryline really knows what's best for the band and his musical direction is just as interesting as it gets.
"Towards the Endless Path" is a long and wonderful journey of pure atmospheric black metal, one of the best without doubt. One hour of tranceful musical composition, well arranged to spread it's beauty and dark side of concept of the entire album.The atmosphere of this album is superb and quite fascinating eventhough it's quite raw and unpolished but some bands need to stay that way just to make enough room for some positive comparison. Heavy and raw guitar playing as the melody lines of the composition "speaks" and memorable as well for those who love to sit back and immerse deep into the world beyond reality.Interesting keyboard and synth lines are all over this album which makes it more interesting and adds more power to the lyrics which dwells around death, soul and life in general.The drums are neatly programmed and fills in just right for each song to accompany Eryline's harsh and cold vocals portraying all sorts of emotions and together with the music, it's an easy connection between Morth and the listeners to share the same feeling through this album.
With such emotion spilled all over it, "Towards the Endless Path" is one of the examples of a good release and managed to find its direction independently into the black metal scene. As we know that creativity has no boundaries and Morth has it for now and for years to come. Come forth and be prepared to be drowned in the world that devours without us realizing it.
https://qalaqasblackartproductions.weebly.com/morth-towards-the-endless-path.html