Yayla - Sathimasal
This one-man Black Metal band hails from Turkey and this is Yayla’s second full-length album. Outside of the novelty of a Black Metal band from Turkey, this album is essentially Burzum worship. All of the songs are epic length (the shortest song on this album is slightly over seven-and-a-half minutes) and very minimalistic. If you remember what Hvis Lyset Tar Oss sounded like, you have a good idea what Sathimasal sounds like. This is another band that should be sending Varg a royalty check. I imagine that there are some folks out there who believe that sounding this way is how you keep it “true” (or is that “trve”?), but as far as I’m concerned, aping a legendary band (I’m not going to comment on Varg’s most recent material…) doesn’t make it so any of their mojo rubs off onto you. It just makes you a clone. Sathimasal isn’t anything you haven’t heard elsewhere. In fact, the droning, repetitive, aspect of it makes you tune it out. When you’re sitting there thinking, “Hey, maybe I should throw on some music,” and then you realize you’re actually listening to something already, it means the album isn’t engaging enough to hold your attention. Even for minimalistic, droning Black Metal, that’s a bad thing.
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