Stillsealed digipak

Demomaterial recorded in Helsinki and Bangkok in July 2008. Holocaustoagreed to release the material, as he thought these versions weresuperior (despite sampled drums) to the album versions. Anyone whohas managed to hold on for the many twists and turns that haveoccurred with this bands music since the early 90s demos, all theway through the ambient interlude period to the present day willfind a lot of familiar elements at play here, but the manner oftheir mixture is quite different from what would be expected as afollow up to the largely traditional sounding blackness of‘Engram’. The best way to describe this album is as a hybrid of theextremely noise-ridden, otherworldly character of “Drawing Down TheMoon” and the lingering, dream-like ambient landscapes of the twonon-metal albums that followed it. In some respects, one couldspeculate as to whether these guys started listening to Nadja and ahandful of funeral doom bands as some common elements of noisy,dissonant distorted guitar riffs are combined with a very slow,restrained mixture of straight doom beats and mechanical soundingbackground ambiences. Granted, there has always been a fairlysizable doom influence on this band’s sound, but not quite to thisextent. Perhaps the greatest charm of Beherit’s approach to adroning, noise drenched sound is that they tend to progress a bitmore and don’t fully avoid occasional elements of consonance thatwere heavily present during the ambient eras of Ildjarn and Burzum.“Demon Advance” actually does give off a vibe of advancing, albeitat a pretty slow rate, and manages to filter through a number ofspacey keyboard figures as the nasty, hateful guitar lines remainconstant. Perhaps the only things that really keeps this song frombeing excellent is the weak clean vocal passages which sound weakand out of tune, the poor drum production and lack of variation inthe beat, which don’t fit well with a set of slowly progressingmotives. Fortunately the second half of this fairly large scale 2song release proves to be a good bit stronger and more focused.Definite echoes of the dense, dark, mystical feel of “Drawing DownThe Moon” are all over this, along with a somewhat more techno-likecharacter to the repetitious drum lines. NHV’s vocals aregoblin-like and whisper-prone, fitting in nicely with the effectssteeped guitars and occasionally horrific sounding keyboardadditives. This is the sort of song that would fit in nicely with ashorter theatrical attraction of the classical horror genre, as onecan almost fully visualize the figure of Nosferatu within thecreepy mixture of sounds that fills the whole 13 minutes of thisthing. This is a tough one to fully nail down for any individuallooking for something that resembles the stereotypical definitionof black metal. Suffice to say, it’s definitely not something thatwill negotiate well with someone who likes this band solely forwhat they did on “Engram”. But anyone who immerses themselves inthe world of drone/doom and ambient music will probably want tocheck this thing out. It’s the sort of music to meditate to if onewishes to acquire visions along the lines of a nightmare sequencein a Stephen King story.

Tracklisting:
1. Demon Advance
2. Celebrate The Dead

Condition cover: mint / stillsealed

Condition cd: nm

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