Score: 7
"True Norwegian Black Metal"
date: October 30, 2007
This is a great piece that definitely is in the ballpark of what Darkthrone did with its perfect album. The vocals were absolutely perfect for black metal, it almost sounds like Silenoz from the first Demon Burger album. The guitar has that emaciated ghoulish sound, and the signature blast beat is there. However, you might have gone over the top just a little, giving the guitar lines just too little shape, and more notably the blast beats are themselves unstable and treacherous, making the piece seem to go by slowly, and not quite reaching the hypnotic dissonance of Darkthrone, whose songs had more of a constant blast beat with which to compare the roiling chaos of everything else and a guitar riff that could be discerned, albeit still soaked in discord. However, it would be completely unfair for anyone to expect anyone to write anything that matches "Transilvanian Hunger" remotely at all, and you were definitely within the ballpark. Keep it true, keep it black, I love it all. And also, the I En Hall Med Flesk Og Mjod line at the start was a nice touch
