Style: Keyboard laden black metal
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Thoughts: I've been eying this release for quite some time. I almost bought it at least three separate times. Something always held me back, but no longer. I finally have this great MLP in my collection.
Orkblut play an infectious style of black metal that draws it's sound back to early Satyricon and Sacramentum. Seriously, this album feels like it came out in 1994.
The keyboards are in the background and compliment the riffs nearly perfectly. The vocals have a deep rhaspyness to them that only those early recordings have. The riffs have that wonderful simplicity that is so strikingly effective that the early black metal acts showcase.
Orkblut isn't trying to impress anyone with the prowess of their playing, nor are they trying to turn heads with innovative riffs and whirling dervish arrangements. No. This is straight forward black metal that wears it's influence on it's sleeve. It does nothing new, but it does what it does so well that it's impossible to ignore.
Written July 21st 2024
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