Reign of the Fallen One is currently the latest release by Latvian

Latvians

Latvians or Letts are the indigenous Baltic people of Latvia.-History:Latvians occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia...

 black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Dark Domination

Dark Domination

Dark Domination is a black metal band of Latvian origin, active since 1996. To the date, Dark Domination have released three full-length albums, one extended play, one compilation of demo tapes and one full-length show on video, and have toured Northern and Eastern Europe...

. It is an EP

Extended play

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 written in collaboration with Austria

Austria

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n black ambient mastermind Hugin

Hugin

Huginn and Muninn are two ravens associated with the god Odin in Norse mythology.Hugin may also refer to:*Hugin , a reconstruction of a Viking longship in Ramsgate, England....

 of his one-man project Uruk-Hai

Uruk-hai

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. The EP was released by Japan

Japan

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ese label Sabbathid Records.

Musical style and experiments

With four songs on this EP, Dark Domination are continuing their approach on classic Second Wave Black Metal. Meantime, the songs are developed with increased musicianship, mostly due to new lead guitarist Halpas (previously of Mutilate Myself) who joined Dark Domination after the release of the band's previous album, Rebellion 666

Rebellion 666

Rebellion 666 is the third full-length album by Latvian black metal band Dark Domination. It was written and recorded during the winter of 2005/2006 and released on May 31, 2006, via Evil Distribution — the first-ever Dark Domination's release on a Latvian label .-Musical style and...

, replacing Lodbrok.

With this release, Dark Domination have returned to experimenting with black ambient sounds, as they were doing in first two albums, and have not included drone doom compositions. The solid, massive ambient tracks 1, 5, and 7 on this album are written by Hugin of Uruk-Hai.

This also is the only Dark Domination album to include rudimentary instrumental solos: guitar lead on song In the Name of the Horned God and bass solo on the title track Reign of the Fallen One.

Tracklisting

Tracks 2, 3, 5 and 6 written by Dark Domination

Dark Domination

Dark Domination is a black metal band of Latvian origin, active since 1996. To the date, Dark Domination have released three full-length albums, one extended play, one compilation of demo tapes and one full-length show on video, and have toured Northern and Eastern Europe...

, tracks 1, 4, and 7 written by Hugin of Uruk-Hai.

1. "Intro: Venus Rising" — 01:11
2. "Astral World" — 05:03
3. "Spiritual Alchemy" — 05:09
4. "Dance of Succubus" — 01:09
5. "In the Name of the Horned God" — 04:36
6. "Reign of the Fallen One" — 04:42
7. "Outro: Angel Enthroned" — 01:12

Personnel

• Lord Messir — vocals, guitars
  Electric guitar
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  , production
• Halpas — lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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• Eligor — bass
• Midgard
  Midgard
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   — drums
  Drum kit
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• Hugin — keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , production
• Antonine Delas — artwork