Band: Grimnir / Trist / Regnum / Hypothermia
Album: Split
Genre: Raw Black Metal, Despressive/Suicidal Black Metal, lo-fi
Country: Austria / Czech Republic / Germany / Sweden
Tracklist:
1. Grimnoir - Angst - Requiem
2. Trist - Černá Melancholie
3. Regnum - Unerträglich
4. Regnum - Ich Sehe
5. Hypothermia - Julia
Now what we have here is quite a mix, with two much more notable artists to the genre, Trist and Hypothermia, in a split with Grimnir and Regnum, two less known names, which were unfamiliar to me as well before this release. Luckily. But more of that soon.
The whole split is done with a poor production, familiar to the genre. Sometimes that may fit and enhance the sound, but sometimes it comes out just awful. I'm not a big fan of the whole raw black metal scene but there's always a few exceptions.
The split starts with Grimnir's track Angst - Requiem, and like I said I haven't come across this band before and it didn't leave me with much to chew on. Quite typical, repetitive riffs and cold and grim (pun not intended) distorted guitars. After few minutes you already know what the track is all about, it'll only switch verses a bit (aka from double bass drums to normal beat). Not particularly an awful track but might just blend completely into many similar, raw sounding dsbm bands..
42%
Now onto the next track by Trist, Černá Melancholie. I'm not a big Trist fan, but this track did it for me. Good example how repetitiveness can be good as well. The instruments and vocals go well together into a haunting wall of repetitive noise, which has a hypnotic effect. The atmosphere comes across anxious and hopeless, and the anguished screams gets lost in the hypnotic bleak noise wall. Well put together track that takes you away.
80%
Next is Regnum, with their first track Unerträglich, with the first minute and a half there's an audio clip of a German man speaking. After that the song kicks off with distorted guitars and low tempo. From there on it just goes on and on with guitars as distorted mess and simple bass line and drums mostly getting buried under the guitars. Vocals are out of place and don't give out much.
The next track by them, Ich Sehe, basically goes along the same lines, except the tempo is faster. A shame that they had to put two tracks by them. A huge downer (not in a way you'd hope) after Trist.
7%
Finally we get to the last track, which definitely saves the split. Hypothermia's Julia fades in with a lovely intro riff. The drums and guitar work well together, and it builds up the track to Kim's recognisable vocals, that always do the trick. The dynamic work between the guitars and drums keeps it up by building it up and carrying you through the ten minutes. It has a melancholic and gloomy tone to it and the vocals does the job to contrast the harsh peaks of the song. Dynamic and melancholic track that'll covers for the two awful tracks before.
89%
Download link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ymtxje34zml
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