"What are you listening to?"
"An experimental death metal band"
"Oh what's that sound like?"
"Kinda noisy"
"Sounds terrible"
"Actually its pretty damn good"
Noise is a funny thing. It can be incredibly harsh, it can be annoying, it can be soothing. It can be forged into something greater than noise in the hands of the right artists.
Nihl stands as an excellent example of what a noisy structure can do in the hands of the right composers. Altarage take noise and mold it into a death metal architecture. The resulting sound is very rhythmic, it can also be hard to wrap your head around exactly what is going on with the riffs.
There is a lot happening at any given moment during Nihl, at the same time it can easily be passed off as noise. If given the time to listen and to take a deep dive into the riffs, there is a lot to enjoy about this album. Stay a while and listen.
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