Friday 6 January 2012

Aethyr - Nihil Grail EP (2011)



Band request from Moscow, Russia.

Another BM band sending me stuff to review. I still
know next to nothing about this genre but will do my
best. This is not the corpse painted vomiting of the BM
mainstays (if it were, I would politely decline to review)
but has many elements of drone, dark ambient,
atmospheric passages which die-hards may sneer at -
but fear not, the sound is still de-tuned, distorted guitars
and crushing drum elements with the bass sounding like
a bulldozer digging out your frontal lobes.

There are only two tracks but as each one is almost 9
minutes long, it gives the songs plenty of time to build
up to menacing climaxes - I would of liked maybe another
track to really get my teeth into though.

If your tastes stretch to Wolves In the Throne Room or
The Atlas Moth, give this a Listen.

Download for free + some other releases at Bandcamp

3 comments:

  1. To be honest man Burzum and Immortal are quite dissimilar within the realm of BM. I know I'm nitpicking haha and apologise for that, but I'm totally Alan Partridge when it comes to music.

    "Stop getting Bond wrong!"

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  2. You have quite rightly pulled me up for that. Having heard very extreme stuff before, and not liked it, i was trying to point out the difference in style but having no knowledge of genre, have failed badly. I feel as foolish as some one who wore white trousers and allowed the pictures to go on facebook. this will probably be last bm i shall review. will you be able to listen to first track on the bandcamp link to see how out my review is?

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