NOCTURNAL NIGHTEMARE – ALLT HAR SITT SLUT
From Sweden comes NOCTURNAL NIGHTMARE’s second EP. The band hit again with two tracks to continue digging in the depressive and athmospheric approach of black metal they’ve shown in the past, filled with suicide and self-harm in the lyrics.
Dark, heavily relaying in the instrumentation and with some hints of avant-garde, the band kicks this EP on with “Minds Of Desolation”, which, after a clean, show tempo intro with the guitar under the main focus, breaks out in a speed black metal attack, only to show down again filled with the sound of rain and whispers. One can almost feel the swedish cold air. With a very raw production and the vocal treatment is somehow strange (it gets really hard to get the lyrics here) “Minds Of Desolation” reveals cleverness and good songwriting taste, being a very nice start.
The second track in this EP is called “Allt Har Sitt Slut”. Much shorter than it’s predecesor and giving a more important role to the vocals, the songs keeps that depressive black metal vibe, with a dense athmosphere that surrounds you from the very beginning.
There’s no doubt there’s still room for improvement in NOCTURNAL NIGHTMARE work, but their compositions show good ideas and good taste, specially regarding ambientations. We’ll have to wait until we can enjoy a full lenght album to judge them propertly.
TRACKLIST:
1.- Minds Of Desolation
2.- Allt Har Sitt Slut
NOCTURNAL NIGHTMARE are:
Grotesk – Voz, Guitarras
Oro – Guitarras
Lucian – Batería