This 30-minute mCD with four leftover tracks from ”Dol Guldur” album was much more successful than the actual full-length, as far as this reviewer sees it. Dreamy qualities of ”Dol Guldur” are here but now SUMMONING creates a new kind of mood out of it, one of wanderings in snow-clad forests under the stars, more energy and movement, more like their masterpiece ”Minas Morgul” had it. This has less depression and more warfare, in comparison to ”Dol Guldur”.

Technically the material is not far removed from the full-length’s epic Tolkien ambience gothic melancholic black metal, except for the production that is more hazy than ever, recorded in some studio in Luxembourg. The sound is quite terrible, yes, the bass is unhearable and the guitar is left to be an unmoving distorted buzz behind the synths, but it does not destroy this mCD, it might even be one of the things that spiced it up from the bland separation of ”Dol Guldur”’s sound elements.

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