Horrid - Kingdom Of Decay [Demo]
Horrid’s demo ‘’Kingdom Of Decay’’ actually
got me by surprise. I hadn’t anticipated it, because I didn’t even know the
band was carving out new material. Horrid impressed me beyond belief with their
malicious self titled album last year, a reeking slab of desolate, carnal
blackened death/thrash, and the thing that I love even more about Horrid is
that they don’t stick to the cheesy retro thrash antics, and instead display
some top notch blackened death/thrash, reeling away from all modern senses the
thrash genre has fabricated along the way. ‘’Horrid’’ was notably
well-bestirred, ill-natured and fatal, embracing certain queer tactics that the
death and black metal genres forged alongside their union, and the demo follows
the same path that the album left, but there still seems to be a few changes in
the sound. I was glad to hear the bizarrely dissonant solos that really left
their mark from the previous record, but besides that, ‘’Kingdom Of Decay’’
supports a rawer production and an even dispersed, chubby tone. Horrid don’t
redefine their sound with this two track demo, but they set the basics of an
upcoming full-length which can be relatively capricious due to certain changes
that will grow in time.
Slaegt - Demo [Demo]
Coming from the frigid lands of Denmark
come Slaegt, a completely fresh new act out of Copenhagen present a concise
demo of four tracks of bleak and mournful raw black metal of high quality. The
one man army establishes a turbulent atmosphere and launches and assault of
thinny, piercing black metal tremolos, fluent and dynamic melodies writhing and
slicing the listener as they ascend and descend, channelling vigorously through
the freezing cold atmosphere he creates. Slaegt’s direction is quite
unequivocal, as the piercing riffs are always heading towards a certain
direction, but the demo also shows some defiance in the raw and savaged sound,
and a hope of the riffs to sprint away from their current position is always
there, even though the event never actually occurs. The demo has its hooks, and
it likes to pull the listener slowly with an interesting array of groovy
patterns, seasoned with the extreme shrillness of the ear-piercing cries of the
tortured rasps. Though it is short, Slaegt’s demo eventually proves to be
efficient as the cold and entrancing fibrous waves that it spews fourth
eventually suffuses over the listener, engulfing him/her in a ghastly aura of
spectral and frozen splendour. One of the finer raw black metal demos I heard
this year, I must say, and I’m anticipating a second release impatiently.
Horrid: 8/10
Slaegt: 8.25/10
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