Sad - ...and His Minions Shall Eternally Reign
Considering my well-known love of the genre, how the hell have I never heard of a five-year-old Greek Black Metal band that has already unleashed four full-length albums and a handful of splits?!? In my pitiful defense, all of Sad’s releases have been very short-run limited editions, some as few as only 50 copies. With that in mind, I think that it’s safe to assume that they’re all out-of-print, so hopefully the entire catalog will be reissued soon, because based on this two-song EP, I’d certainly like to hear more as quickly as possible. Main-man Ungod, who is in several other equally obscure GBM groups, expertly handles all of the instruments himself, while the only other member, Nadir, sings, or more accurately, shrieks and screams in an appropriately grim and tormented Black Metal style. The raw buzzsaw guitar tone is carried upon the shoulders of a thick bass sound (I have to like all Black Metal with audible basslines), with the drumming slightly pushed to the background, which somehow works perfectly here. Even during the faster, most intense parts of these tracks, the despondent feeling of the simple, repetitious music never completely disappears, giving …and His Minions Shall Eternally Reign an interesting sonic identity, and proving (yet again) that more complexity is not always better.
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