9 songs / 35 minutes
Black Sun
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Nifelheim are one of those black metal bands that have been around for a decade
already, and after listening several times to their 3rd album "Servants Of
Darkness", you notice that although their music is raw to the bones, it
contains at the same time enough originality, or rather ideas, to discern it
from more recent black metal bands. Admittedly pseudonames like Tyrant,
Hellbutcher and Devastator put a smile on everybody's face who used to listen
to old Sodom, but that's a part of the game. You get the corpsepaint, a very
raw and unproduced sound plus 9 songs ranging from hyperfast 2 minute outbursts
to more epic and melodic songs ('Into The Morbid Black'), and the closing song
'Sacrifice To The Lord Of Darkness' has a bass part that under normal
circumstances should only be found in an Iron Maiden song and not on an
in-your-face black metal CD.
I started out taring this CD with meager 6 points, but the more I listen to it,
the more I discover its hidden charm, and even if Nifelheim require a lot of patience
and good will from their audience, they will eventually be rewarded with retro
metal à la early Bathory. Not a very long album, but one of the better
efforts in this genre since Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir have been transforming
it into something mass compatible.
Visit the band's
official homepage!
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