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Valkiria - No Darkness, No Light

1. Ordinary Hell
2. Kill the Nothing Show lyrics
3. Wind of Glory
4. Beyond the Fog
5. No Darkness No Light
6. Lost World
7. The Temporizer
8. Surrender
9. Death Is Now II
10. Magic Water

ValkusValkiria Vocals, All instruments

Faily voice on "magic Water" and "The Temporizer"

Recording information:

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Valkiria Studio.

 

No Darkness No Light Masterland.com review

Quite fresh, last year, album of gothic metal VALKIRIA. The Italian ValkusValkiria, in fact, practically does everything in this project himself. But there is a guest vocalist, Faily, who sang on two tracks.
VALKIRIA's music is very rich, but sound produced carefully, without any discounts. The result is a magnificent stucco molding of melodic epic and gothic metal. In addition, the author himself sings - and he quite successfully manages to realize his skills, in pure - goth-style, for example, perfectly well.
The publishing label focused attention on the tags #Gothic#Black#Doom, but this rather has to do with the work of VALKIRIA in general. In general, Valkus launched the project back in the last century. And a lot has passed through the crucible of his creativity, put down its deep roots, from which, at the right time, these or those substances grow. Gothic is unambiguous, epic is perfect, so doom sometimes breaks through, both in vocal accompaniment and in slow parts.
Valkus is a gorgeous melodist who, not only has developed a detailed roadmap for each track, but also painted in it many of his ideas based on the great European heritage - folk and classical music. Not to mention the fact that he withstood his creation over the poisonous sources of strong emotional experiences ... and this will make itself felt ...
Basically, the work goes in a majestic mid-tempo, but the author speeds up in places and turns on the hammering hammers of the drams. And then suddenly it will slow down, literally pulling the veins out of the listener - but not for long, because torture topics are not tariffed here.
I will definitely say about the guest vocalist Fayly. She sings on the tracks The Temporizer and Magic Water. If you still need to look for her in the first track, then in the second - the final track - her charming singing gives a special effect of an extreme piece, the continuation of which you will wait. Moreover, here the vocal twists and turns are twisted in earnest. However, in The Temporizer, the author deliberately tightens up in the framework of gothic metal to serious values, as if recalling the hooligan black doom past)).
Recommendations. Try Wind of Glory. Although here, frankly speaking, you are tortured to highlight something, literally every song with an internal tab - a bomb that minerals do not need to look for, it itself will puff with all the melodic force.
But still Wind of Glory - 7 and a half minutes. The keyboard rushing gloomy beginning, grows before our eyes literally into a gothic mid-tempo vocal tunnel, guitar lines - like high-voltage cables from the right, then to the left, and here ... the string openwork of the solo part, supported by a powerful rhythm section - unexpectedly - like volcano Vesuvius. Yes, this is the longest compo on the album, so here the author demonstrates his personal musical and architectural preferences. The goth vocals emphasize the composer's dark metal pose.
A very smooth and beautiful album, literally pulling the listener into their personal abyss of melodic liberated creativity.

 

 

 

NO DARKNESS NO LIGHT

Recorded mixed and mastered at Valkiria studio. Valkus Valkiria: all instruments and vocals. released September 20, 2019.

20th anniversary

Visions of lost souls + kelthanir double cd 20th anniversary 1996-2016. Released December 12, 2016 via GS production
Valkus Valkiria all instruments and vocals

 

HERE THE DAY COMES

Recorded at Destroyed studios, Vicenza, april-may 2011. drum recorded at Outer Sound Studios March 2011. Mixed at Outer Sound Studios by Giuseppe Orlando Rome June 2011, mastered by jens bogren at fascination street, örebro, july 201. Drum recorded at Outer Sound Studios March 2011. Guitar bass and vocals recorded at Destroyed studios, Vicenza, april-may 2011.Mixed at Outer Sound Studios by Giuseppe Orlando Rome June 2011, mastered by jens bogren at fascination street, örebro, july 2011. Released April 19, 2012

 

UPON THIS EARTH

Valkus:all instruments and vocals
In December 2008 was released a four tracks Ep edition, one year later was released the complete album with the original Ep cover, the only difference was the new logo. In 2009 the French label "Wildness" released a free download Valkiria compilation titled Break the silence. In 2010 the entire album was re-recorded. In 2015 the album was re-recorded again and new songs added to the tracklist. Upon this earth re-recorded, released on september 21 2014, via GS Production. All the tracks of the original version, which dates back to 2009, have been re-recorded and 7 unreleased songs have been added to the tracklist. The album press is limited to 100 copies.

 

EPIKA

Valkus: all instruments and vocals
Lyrics are taken from Velmhar, second book, language used: Dekalurian.
originally recorded 2005, re-recorded 2013
The new album version contains three new songs that replace the previous Imharad, Ilkendarth and Madaka.
mixed and mastered january 2019.

 

OF DREAMS AND PAIN

Valkus:all instruments and vocals
released 2007 re-recorded 2014
recorded, mixed and mastered at Valkiria studio.
Released on december 13 2014, via GS Production. All the tracks of the original version, which dates back to 2007, have been re-recorded and 8 unreleased songs have been added to the tracklist. The album press is limited to 100 copies.

 

BLOOD ON BLOOD

released 2006 re-recorded 2014
Valkus:all instruments and vocals
Mancan:vocals on "I've refused you"
Norsum: bass on "life"

Blood on blood album released on may 21 2014, via GS Production. All the tracks of the original version, which dates back to 2006, have been re-recorded and 10 unreleased songs have been added to the tracklist. The album press is limited to 100 copies.

 

THUR KUARANKHARN STHORN

Valkus: all instruments and vocals
Lyrics are taken from Velmhar's first book, language used: Dekalurian. Released November 11, 2004, exactly seven years after "The narrow bed" demo 97, represents a turning point.
Those who know the theory of seven-year cycles know exactly that this is not a case, and after two seven-year cycles I decided to realize this new version, but I only realized it now.
Black metal is something absolutely intimate, unfortunately alone in the 90s, it was still difficult to record even a demo. However, thanks to the technology of the new millennium, Valkus finally won his battle against low budget and mediocre and presumptuous drummers; elements that were the cause of a long and suffered creative standstill.
In 2004 I considered this work more a full length than a demo, cause the effort and time to make it, but then I remembered when a voice had predicted me many years before I would have made two demos before coming to the publication of a real full length.