#lampofmurmuur — Public Fediverse posts

Shared it yesterday already, but have to do it again. This song is living rent free in my head since I heard it live and it's just so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLAlYMRkWs

#BlackMetal #LampOfMurmuur

Current mood is at an all time low for.. reasons.

What really helps now is of course music. More specific, currently it's Lamp of Murmuur, which I've seen live recently. The show was great, so I bought the LP - even got it signed - and listening to it again, it's still great.
So here you are, give it a go.

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/the-dreaming-prince-in-ecstasy

#LampOfMurmuur #BlackMetal #Metal #NowPlaying

I've seen Blackbraid, Dödsrit, Gudsforladt, Lamp of Murmuur, Wolfennest, Final Dose and Der Weg einer Freiheit today.

I'm fucking done, but damn it was worth it!

I'm also maybe 8 beers deep now.

#MetalheadClubConcerts #Blackbraid #Dödsrit #LampOfMurmuur #FinalDose #Wolfennest #Gudsforladt #DWEF #DerWegEinerFreihheit

Metal Fatigue is not a moral failing: it is a physiological phenomenon, befalling even the most honorable of headbangers. Though traditional metal can tire in its own way, Metal Fatigue mostly lurks on the severe side of the genre. Too often, extreme metal exhausts by coupling sonic monotony with album lengths more appropriate for episodes of prestige television. Given my own struggles with Metal Fatigue, I was intrigued to see Let Water Flow—a 28-minute black metal record from Moon Wisdom—sitting in the sump. The solid advance singles convinced me to cover this Italian trio’s debut. Moon Wisdom describe theirs as second-wave style black metal, with notes of depressive gaze and punk. As a short Long Play, Let Water Flow sets itself up to leave black metal fans wanting more.

Let Water Flow sits nicely in the second-wave black metal lane. Perhaps the best touchstone for Moon Wisdom’s sound is Immortal. Similar to Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, “Intro” plucks gentle, atmosphere-drenched chords as the lead-in to the first proper song. “As Rain”—one of the advance singles—dashes from Kaelos’s epic riffing to Faith’s sinister screeching and Hexis’s galloping drum work. Tasty solos are a recurring theme across the album, similar to Havukruunu draping classic shred over Immortal black metal (“Frozen Soul,” “Solitude”). “Dark Shades,” the other advance single, demonstrates a more modern version of Moon Wisdom’s second-wave worship. The song’s sparse, textural bridge transforms its evil opening into an affecting gateway for mournful modulations and a furious finale. Throughout Let Water Flow, shifts between macabre delicacy and blackened crudity bring Lamp of Murmuur to mind.

Let Water Flow by Moon Wisdom

The concise runtime of Let Water Flow cuts like a double-edged sword. It makes the album eminently relistenable but draws attention to inconsistent songwriting. “As Rain,” for instance, opens the album with dynamic concision, but its concluding solo ends abruptly, reading more like a bridge than a destination. “Ashen Winds” suffers a similar fate. It develops an engaging interplay between creepy and pummeling riffs that culminates too soon. Conversely, “Frozen Soul,” the mid-album curveball, could be trimmed. The song establishes an enchanting, melancholic vibe, but redundancy hits in its slow-building rock crescendo. “Dark Shades,” the last proper song, stands as the strongest track on Let Water Flow. It showcases Moon Wisdom’s talent for creating something epic that isn’t overlong. Unfortunately, the album (essentially) ends here; the brief “Lullaby of the Woods” puts the album to bed, but “Dark Shades” sounds like the band finally starting the day.

Let Water Flow possesses compelling qualities that, if accentuated, would cultivate Moon Wisdom’s sound. As mentioned, the band professes a depressive blackgaze influence. Sonically, this mostly unadorned record doesn’t really impart a gaze aesthetic. “Frozen Soul” comes closest to inspiring hypnotic shore-staring, especially in its enticing bass feature.1 But the song, like the album, embodies gaze less through production effects and more through compositional dynamics. I actually like that Moon Wisdom doesn’t drown their guitarwork in reverb. Still, the sparse sections could be developed to give these songs more character. Moon Wisdom also cites a punk influence, but I didn’t detect much of this across Let Water Flow. Beyond “As Rain,” which contains a d-beat, nothing struck me (musically) as punk. A pretty non-punk element on the album is the violin on closer “Lullaby of the Woods.” More of this would have worked well, especially on the “gaze” sections.2

Let Water Flow—I’m surprised to say—had me experiencing Metal Deficiency.3 I commend Moon Wisdom’s impulse towards brevity, but the album feels like an EP with a short intro/conclusion framework tacked on. The inconsistent songwriting and underexplored derivations keep this debut from feeling vital and fully realized. At only 28 minutes, however, Let Water Flow is certainly worth a spin, especially if black metal is your jam. Moon Wisdom satisfy the second-wave itch while showing potential for more. If properly harnessed, their tendency towards terseness might produce a follow-up combating the scourge of Metal Fatigue.

Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 11 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Hypnotic Dirge Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram
Releases Worldwide: January 16th, 2026

Back to the grind. https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/the-dreaming-prince-in-ecstasy

#BlackMetalMonday #LampOfMurmuur

Checking this out because Blayne was going on about it on Banger TV and because the name sounded familiar. Turns out I had their 2021 album (Submission and Slavery) on my AOTY list that year, but this album doesn't sound like the same band at all to me. My memory sucks but I believe that one had a lot of Sisters of Mercy vibes, this one does not. Still solid black metal though.

Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (2025)

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/the-dreaming-prince-in-ecstasy

#LampOfMurmuur #BlackMetal

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Lamp of Murmuur:
🎵 Reincarnation of a Witch

#LampofMurmuur

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/track/reincarnation-of-a-witch

https://open.spotify.com/track/1ujpisB3b6QesRMAVp1uXb

🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ

🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

LAMP OF MURMUUR (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy" #LampOfMurmuur #BlackMetal #Novembre2025 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy Review

By Tyme

L.A.-based M., the mastermind behind Lamp of Murmuur, has been busy this year. In addition to releasing two other solo projects—Silent Thunder’s EP, Soulspear, and Magus Lord’s full-length, In the Company of Champions—he’s readying to unleash his fourth Lamp of Murmuur long player, The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, this November. Far removed from the very lo-fi, kvltish cassette-only demos of 2019, Lamp of Murmuur has steadily matured over the years. Our resident shark, Carcharodon, had ‘tons of fucking fun’ with 2023’s Saturnian Bloodstorm, highlighting its heavy Immortal influence. When I spied The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy sitting unclaimed in the sump, I reached out to our scrivening squalus, who graciously ceded his seniority, hoping I had as much fun with LoM’s newest outing as he had with its last. Will The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy build off the excitement of Saturnian Bloodstorm, and further M.’s musical momentum, or will we discover that Lamp of Murmuur’s shine has dimmed a bit?

At first blush, The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy extends Saturnian Bloodstorm’s thrashing black metal template before wading into waters teeming with new wave and gothic metal elements. Immortal’s influence still lurks amidst M.’s swirling, rapid-fire tremolos and galloping chugs (“Hategate (the Dream-Master’s Realm)”), while twinkling, Këkht Aräkh-like keys lace the guitar-driven melodies on “Forest of Hallucinations,” its intro emitting South of Heaven-era Slayer vibes from the harmonized leads. M.’s vocals, as blackly metallic and viscerally lethal as ever, are dichotomously connected to the music and venture into minimally explored cleaner climes while sharing the spotlight on “A Brute Angel’s Sorrow” with guest vocalist Crying Orc (Këkht Aräkh).1 For beyond the Nightmare on Elm Street meets Black Aria2 vibes of instrumental opener “The Fires of Seduction,” lie the equally moody atmospheres of mid-album interlude “Angelic Vortex,” which serves as a portal, ushering listeners from Lamp of Murmuur’s past into what The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy represents for the project’s future.

Three-part title track, “The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy,” is the album highlight. Without jettisoning its black metal roots, Lamp of Murmuur shrouds this triptych in a Sólstafiric, proggy haze of spacy, 70s-style rock guitar solos and cascading Phantom of the Operatic progressions (“Part I – Moondance”), melodic, soaring leads (“Part II – Twilight Orgasm”) and a romping, symphonic paganism (“Part III – The Fall”) reminiscent of early Old Man’s Child. In addition, M.’s broadening, clean vocals inject new-wave intensity into the non-harsh moments of “Moondance,” a Moroder & Bowie “Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)” feel into the latter croons of “Twilight Orgasm,” and an effective, Cattle Decapitation-esque tonal rasp into “The Fall.” I think I had as much fun diving in and out of the waters of this stretch of TDPiE as our beloved sharkster had ingesting the whole of Saturnian Bloodstorm.

As often as dichotomy spearheads musical diversity, however, it can also foster unintended inconsistency, and in the court of The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy’s case, the latter unfortunately testifies loudest. As many moments of greatness exist on both halves of TDPiE’s whole, so too do some missteps. M.’s first instance of cleans, for example, at the end of “Hategate (The Dream-Master’s Realm)” sound out of tune and pulled me from an otherwise enjoyable listen during every spin. In addition, “Part I – Moondance” contains some awkwardly off-key musical transitions, and at times, the staccato, machine-gun riffage in “Part III – The Fall” feels out of sync with the drumming. And as much as I enjoyed the acoustically well-executed and clean-sung “A Brute Angel’s Sorrow,” its off-putting, last-batter-in-the-lineup positioning completely saps the majesty from the silence left in the wake of “Part III – The Fall”‘s last powerful chord.

A tenet often adhered to despite its obtusity is that broadened popularity for a band that launched its career from the darkened shadows of the kvlt black metal world usually leads to its death or disownment. In the case of Lamp of Murmuur, a forerunner of the current USBM scene, opinions may vary. As it stands, The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy is a full-length that, if released as a pair of EPs, might have transcended its holistic inconsistencies. I’ve grown past the distaste I felt on initial listens to appreciate both sides of what Lamp of Murmuur has done here and look forward to M.’s continued growth, as should you.

Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: 320kbps mp3
Label: Wolves of Hades
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: November 14th, 2025

#2025 #30 #blackMetal #gothicMetal #immortal #kekhtArakh #lampOfMurmuur #nov25 #oldMansChild #review #solstafir #theDreamingPrinceInEcstasy #usbm #wolvesOfHadesRecords

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Lamp of Murmuur:
🎵 Reincarnation of a Witch

#LampofMurmuur

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/track/reincarnation-of-a-witch

https://open.spotify.com/track/1ujpisB3b6QesRMAVp1uXb

Still Monday. Still hectic. https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/submission-and-slavery #LampOfMurmuur #BlackMetalMonday

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy

Lamp of Murmuur:
🎵 Forest of Hallucinations

#LampofMurmuur
#newRelease 🆕 single

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/track/forest-of-hallucinations

https://open.spotify.com/track/4pLZiviIorOHMAAlMfJIrE

Startin' here. https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/submission-and-slavery #MittwochMetalMix #LampOfMurmuur

#nowPlaying

Magus Lord - In the Company of Champions

Finally the whole album is released!

Awesome Epic Black Metal by M. from Lamp of Murmuur

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-company-of-champions

#MagusLord #InTheCompanyOfChampions #EpicBlackMetal #BlackMetal #LampOfMurmuur

I got nothin'. #BlackMetalMonday #LampOfMurmuur https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/submission-and-slavery

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Silent Thunder - Soulspear (MLP)

New Stuff from M of #LampOfMurmuur with a cover version of Time Tryeth Truth originally performed by Current93

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/soulspear-mlp

#SilentThunder #Soulspear #BlackMetal

#nowPlaying

Magus Lord - One Path to Carn Dûm

First single of a new epic blackened heavy metal Sideproject from M. of Lamp of Murmuur / Fuineähot / Silent Thunder. Inspired by bands like Summoning, Bathory or Gods Tower.

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/track/one-path-to-carn-d-m-single

#MagusLord #InTheCompanyOfChampions #BlackMetal #EpicBlacknedHeavyMetal #LampOfMurmuur

#nowPlaying

Lamp of Murmuur - Melancholy Howls In Ceremonial Penitence (Demo)

Saw a live video recording of LoM where they played "Harbinger Of Blasphemies To Come" and recognized that I didn't have the album in my bandcamp collection even though I have the vinyl at home. So I fixed that.

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/melancholy-howls-in-ceremonial-penitence-demo

#LampOfMurmuur #MelancholyHowlsInCeremonialPenitence #BlackMetal #RawBlackMetal #LoFiBlackMetal

#Dödsrit live, gleich kommen noch #LampOfMurmuur und #Blackbraid :blobcat:

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Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm

The album will probably end up very high on my top list of the year.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=AKMH7gzxZ58

#LampOfMurmuur #SaturnianBloodstorm #BlackMetal #USBM

#nowPlaying

Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okhnhzfUvqM

This month the EU tour of #LampOfMurmuur and #DevilMaster starts!

#EcstasiesOfNeverEndingNight #BlackMetal #Punk