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Sunday January 21, 2007 - 11:56 PM
this is the swedish band morbid, the band Dead was in previous to his Mayhem years. give this one a shot, its the lone demo released by the band, and it fucking kicks ass. Black Metal these days seems to lack a single thing to me - the haunted, terrifying environment only a few bands have really captured
take for example the vocals and the sounds of the guitar riffs on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (mayhem)
or emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse
now compare that to the very plain sounding "troo kult" whatever stuff put out by Ibex throne. see? theres no horror element! i eman of course they have the raspy vocals and the proper guitar sounds, but they just arent being creative enough. anyways moving on
when i first started listening to december moon, i was sceptical of it. it was from 87' only a year after i was born and there were no bands with a very good Bm sound at all. but when the volume rose and the intro kicked in, i immediately turned up the volume. this "album' managed to capture the chilling horrific element so rare in music these days. and right on through the beginning until the end, with each song varying in style from the last, some more symphonic, some more *raw*, and some parts just very thrashy, but the entire thing just clicked for me, and it worked very well. not to mention Dead's Vox on this are simply spine chilling and are probably what makes the demo so listenable.
i think if he had more time and lived longer he could have actually refined his work for DMDS and came out with something better than attila could choke up. pay no heed to all the unorganized sounds of "deads last rehearsals" or the half-good live in leipzig. these things do not match up to what would have been dead's final product. this demo proves it.
these tracks are also available on the Morbid Mayhem split, "a tribute to the black emperors"
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