21st Century Metal Net
Link: 21st Century Metal Net
ARVINGER is a two-piece black metal project from Norway, the Land of Black Metal.
Their music sounds to me more like, say, viking black metal than typical satanic
one because of its dramatic symphonic arrangement along with nordic folk melody.
But elemets of "bravery" is not emphasized here so much. The cream of their music is
the dynamic contrast between beauty and ugliness; fast and slow; sane and insane.
Typical trill picking and violent blast beats are also to be heard, but these
ideas are not so revolutional in this genre anymore unless they are used in
extreme way, but you can't do without anyway... Main composer Hauk seems to be
a thrash metal fan and he offers some good thrashy riffs on a few songs.
"Fanget Av Vinden" has its presence through whole album. Good one, I like it.
Last but not least, the singer Djerv's vocal sounds like scream of a 120-year-old evil woman,
which terrified me quite a lot. It is insane and I mean it! Dark cold weird world will welcome
you gently... here you are.
(Reviewed by Masa)