Within the cold dungeon.
Review by Kalteldur Webzine;
" One of my favorite DS-related acts doing Slavonian grim ambiance, out now (12/01 2018) with it´s fifth Bandcamp release. With this one, I am hoping for a physical release!
Cold, snow-dominated and desolate vintage synths welcome the listeners, there is not a warm fire here to warm your cold and frozen little bodies. Walking through a burned down village, the smell of burned down huts and decay is almost unbearable. Being utterly left to ruin and stagnation is the sound of O Zaboraljenoj Zemlji, which means something about a Forgotten Land. Forgotten indeed, a truly sad and beautiful way to start this release.
U Tmini I Tamnici (In Dark Dungeons) offers martial drummings through a dark dungeon. Which will only offer a certain doom for the unlucky dungeoneers?
Last track Smrt Bez Spokoja (Death Without Rest) offers a nice and quiet solitude´ish nature to the album. A sad title name, but a strangely uplifting piece. Feels more like death is a nice thing for the souls on fire and agony. A slowly and majestic melodic ambient nail in the coffin!.
A great digital (Sofar) mini-album which perfectly suits the cold European winter in January (mostly being the coldest month over here). A unique DS release for the DS crowd. Do yourself a favor and give it a "warm" spin!"
kalteldur.blogspot.hr/2018/01/talog-ukleta-kotlina-one-of-my-favorite.html
Review by Kraykulla Webzine;
Long awaited new album by Talog is out! I was eager to listen to this one, so here is my opinion about the album.
There was a time in the beginning of 2000s when I discovered dark ambient and dungeon synth music through none other than Mortiis. I used to listen to Stargate album by Mortiis a lot and thought I knew everything about that kind of music. Then I discovered there is a whole beautiful undeground dark ambient and dungeon synth scene in the world and combining that with my love for horror music it became one of my favourite music for a long time.
Now, 15 years later I still love that kind of music, and I love Talog. Hailing from the town of Požega, in Slavonian grey eastern fields that are poor and barren now, with little or no hope for prosperity and survival, this one man dark ambient/dungeon synth band by Kktz, the veteran and legendary character from the Croatian and world underground scene perfectly pictures the bleakness and hopelessness of the area where it is made. The title of the album means Haunted Valley in Croatian language. The album consists of three tracks with titles in Croatian language. Two being longer and one shorter song. There is a minimalistic almost ritual spirit in some melodies but there is also some epic fullness to the song structures, which doesnt surprise me knowing that Kktz has a profound appetite for epic but raw underground black metal emotions. This dark art that Talog creates is definitely not for everyone because if you are not into that kind of emotions you will not like this music. I love it.
This is by far the most mature and complex Talog release yet.
9/10
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released January 12, 2018