LP Review: Reino Ermitaño - Reino Ermitaño (2019 Re-Issue)
It has been sixteen years since Reino Ermitaño released their legendary self-titled album. What has been an insider tip for a long time has now been re-released via Peruvian/German record label Necio Records. And there it is now: Reino Ermitaño's masterpiece "Reino Ermitaño", thirteen tracks of bluesy, gloomy Doom Metal, almost an hour of beautiful darkness, musical depth, and gorgeous melodies. For those of my readers who speak Spanish as well as I do: Reino Ermitaño means The Hermit's Kingdom. Reino Ermitaño are a four-piece band from Peru's capital Lima. Their genre obviously is Doom Metal, and why they might have been disregarded in Europe, Reino Ermitaño have attained cult status amogst Latin American Metal and Doom lovers. And I must say, Reino Ermitaño deserve to be cult in any way. Their music is way more than just another band playing distorted Blues riffs, adding a little Pentagram- or St. Vitus-like Heavy Metal here and there... you know what I me...