“If you like a wunderbar dash of Blood Axis, a stroke of Der Blutharsch, combined with a bit of Death In June and NON, you will probably like this strange and h(a)unting release.”
Sorry, I missed something. I thought that we were passed the time in which saying: “This sounds like Der Blutharsch” made a top-seller, even when it was a shitty release far below the level of Der Blutharsch (if it came even near the style). I listened to this cd, but I don’t hear any Blood Axis, no DIJ, no NON and hardly any Der Blutharsch, so what is the point of comparing “Les Chasseurs De La Nuit” with all these bands? “Homo Homini Lupus” opens with a noisy track with distorted vocals and continues with military soundscapes that remind more of Thoroidh than of any of the mentioned bands. Sometimes the style is a bit bombastic, sometimes a bit more industrial, sometimes mr. Larsson of OTWATM is very present and then of course there is a track with old military music. It is not that this is a bad or boring album, but don’t let yourself be impressed by the sales-talk. What you can expect is ambient soundscapes with martial edges that here and there becomes a bit less ambient. Not bad, not brilliant, just a nice album (in an ugly digipack) with some humour as well.
Kim Larsen of Of The Wand And The Moon apparently wanted to make a more folk and a less neofolk album, so he did and he released it under another name on his own label. Solanaceae has very minimalistic folk songs, while in other songs there are many instruments. There is one song that reminds me of Fire + Ice, but most songs are supposedly in the “psychedelic folk” style. The songs and slow, moody and melancholic (but not as much as Of The Wand) and most of them are quite beautiful.