Saturday, February 21, 2009

A dose of riffy Black Metal...

Vordr
II
Take any black metal album, add some REAL bass and low end, and you've got Vordr. Fucking spiteful, raw metal. Clear BM influence with a dose of thrashy punk. The vocals are typical screechy BM vocals, but are certainly less reserved. The guitars are heavy enough to be labelled as sludge (particularly on the opening track), yet dark enough to be black.

Oh, and did I mention it's grim as shit? Fucking grab this right now.

DL


Ulver / Mysticum Split 7"
Ulver will be playing their first live show in 15 years this coming May in Lillehammer, Norway. Though they won't be playing any of the old black metal stuff, I figured I'd post this on up anyways. Very strong two tracks, with a typical dose of low-fi recordings. If you aren't familiar with either Ulver or Mysticum, go google some of their other shit and get familiar.

Mysticum is straightup norweigian BM. They went slightly industrial on later releases, but didn't veer all to far from the standard. Lyrical themes generally lie in the occult.

The Ulver side of the split is a typical Ulver release. Folk, acoustic elements that slam straight into typical black metal blast beat riffage, with lyrics based more around folklore.

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