Svartsyn - Wrath Upon the Earth
I hate longs intros to albums, and Wrath Upon the Earth starts with one of the longest (2:24) and weirdest in recent memory. Svartsyn plays fairly by-the-numbers, straight-forward, repetitious Black Metal. However, the production is excellent - amazing, even. I can actually hear the bass guitar! How often has that ever been said of a Black Metal album? The repetition of the riffs gets a little annoying from time to time, though, and Ornias has a tendency to just cram ideas together without any kind of flow from one to the next. His vocal patterns are even worse in that regard, and often aren’t really incorporated into the music at all, sounding as if they’re from a different song. That’s not a knock on Ornias’s tormented vocals in and of themselves, which are painfully well done (excusing a minor bad idea or two). Even with these flaws, there are quite a lot of interesting elements here, but they rarely all work together simultaneously, and a collection of good ideas, riffs, drumming and vocals isn’t exactly the same thing as a good song or album.
(0) Comment(s)
Page 1 of 1 pages