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Blåhø: Through sinister nightfall
23/06/13 || sincan
“Norwegian epic sympho black metal for fans of Borknagar, Windir, Dimmu Borgir…” Does this sound like your cup of semen? If it does, please stay, if not, fucken stay.
Always when I approach symphonic black metal I equip myself with a bomb suit. Why? Well not since my fucken speakers use to explode out of joy when such things are being ejaculated out of them. I do it because of the risk that my brain will malfunction and turn into an old school mushroom cloud consisting of puke, anal milk, and blood. Cleaning that mess usually takes both time and makes it harder for me to get laid. Real men doesn’t clean you know! Who am I kidding, I live in Sweden…
Well maybe time to get to business? Norwegian symphonic black metal you said? You mean like generic, cool keyboards killing the atmosphere and a lousy songwriting? Now fuck me with a rusty V CAT D8R since my expectations was not met. It was actually pretty good, from time to time.
The album starts of, fulfilling the pretty generic expectations, except not having very prominent symphonic elements, and my eyes were just blank. The second track is more brutal, it’s thus a little better. Brutal is better. Some clean vocals as well, clean are cool when done right. Third track, hm now I’m going for my bomb suit. Fourth track, holy shit the guys found out about tremolo picking and implemented it into the music and just went from decent/boring into fucking sweet. Really good clean vocals adding a typical “epic fist and mountain top singing pose”. Pretty majestic stuff I must admit. The fifth track is the title track and since they learned some good stuff while doing track four they keep using this new skill which can’t fail. The end of the track brings out the mountain warrior again, I’m pleased. The sixth track is this album’s party track, with a pretty non black metal melody which is kind of catchy and stuff. The final track starts with a straightforward mid paced black metal intro and when the vocals kicks in we also get served a pretty nice guitar solo from the lead guitar, I guess, since it later sounds like some strings (most likely from the synth, which is uncredited as far as what I can sneak out) are taking the place of the guitar.
Well if we look at what types of bands were mentioned in the beginning of this review I must also add Naglfar. I am pretty amused actually with this album, the second half at least. It’s too bad that there are no links to their best tracks (4 and 5) but I promise you that if you like “this kind of music” you will appreciate Blåhø.
- Information
- Released: 2013
- Label: Self released
- Website: www.blaahoe.com
- Band
- Anders Leine: guitars
- Disme: guitars
- Erlend Antonsen: bass
- Jarle “Uruz” Byberg: drums
- Grim: vocals
- Vargon: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. Eternal dreams
- 02. A vision of horrors
- 03. Heretic chaos
- 04. Hell enthralled
- 05. Through sinister nightfall
- 06. Heimferd
- 07. Slagmarken Norge
