The Industrial Twilight: Erg Noor

Monday, January 2, 2017

Erg Noor - "Kosmos" [2006]

Artist: Erg Noor

Title: Kosmos

Genre: Atmospheric Death/Doom Metal

Country: Germany

Release date: 2006

Track List:

Ad Astra
Lost Future
The Awakening
The Wings and the Chains
Evening
Suffering
Night

This project is named after a character in a Soviet sci-fi classic "Andromeda" by Ivan Yefremov, therefore it just have no right to be bad :) In all seriousness, it's a very unique kind of "cosmic" instrumental doom metal, not too heavy but very atmospheric. A kind of music I can listen to for hours non-stop without getting tired of it.

Erg Noor is (was? unfortunately, there are no news from EG since 2009...) a self-defined "misanthropic doom metal" one-man band started in 2004 by someone who was apparently born in our post-Soviet space but relocated to Germany during the 1990s (or maybe early 2000s) along with many other Spätaussiedler. There was an official site (ergnoor.de) with all his music being available for free download, but it isn't working anymore, and the current status of the project seems uncertain. I managed to find some photos of this guy which appear to be from 2011 (maybe a bit earlier), but that's pretty much all:

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