Styggelse – Bland Ändlösa Fält Av Snusk Och Hor
After the opening 15 seconds I knew I would like this. It begins with a couple of samples that are arranged in such a way that makes Saruman appear to be chatting up that slut from the Exorcist! Wait ’till you hear it and its a certainty that her answer makes him blow his load in his robes.
Anyway, a well nasty old school riff opens up in between the samples that you soon find yourself stamping a hoof to in time with the drums. It quickly speeds up and the awesome grim vocals arrive. Nothing out of the ordinary here but they are prefect for the music. Make no mistake, this is well put together and very very catchy and it lets you know it early on. As the second section drops in there’s a nice change in pace and tone and some broken chords thrown in to the mix.
Styggelse have got some good ideas. It is not just straight out of the box BM either because they do guitar solos, shouted backing vocals and even a slow (-ish) track in the middle that is quite dark and bordering on the depressive BM side. Although that is unfair because DBM is fuckin’ shite and this kicks ass. Even so it is still catchy in parts.
Before you know what has smacked you in the face four songs have blasted by and the only reason you realise this is the strange interlude, with wierd piano music and some French dudes who sound like thy’re tripping their bollocks off, which snaps you out of the melee.
A delivery of 6 songs in 21 minutes sounds almost too quick but it just makes this EP short and sweet. It is a cd you can put on as you drive to work and not get pissed off when you have to turn it off half way through the album when you arrive.
The musicianship is nothing startling but that is a rarity in undgerground BM and not something I think I’d wish to hear. Bland Ändlösa Fält Av Snusk Och Hor is highly functional, catchy BM with great replay value, includes some good ideas and the whole thing is really very good. I’d reccomend it to everyone.
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Yes,some parts of the riffs are catchy..old school Bm kinda playing.
for fans of Bathory,venom and perhaps Darkthrone I would say.Had this in my playlist recently..the “Bland Andlosa….”album. Listen to it and start headbanging.\m/