NIDSANG - Streams of Darkness (DRAKKAR - 7"EP 2008)
This 7” single was a blind buy,
to be honest, I’ve not heard of Nidsang before, but it was dead cheap and
released on Drakkar Records, so I told myself “why not?!”. “Streams of Darkness”
was released already few years ago, in 2008, right after the band released the
debut full length “The Mark of Death” – which I also need to get asap. And
well, I must say this is some excellent Swedish black metal. I actually did not
expect to hear anything that good, so the bigger is surprise and satisfaction
to have this EP.
To be honest with you, I would
rather skip all those comparisons to Watain or Marduk, which I am sure that
appear in every review of Nidsang. I also hate calling such music “religious
black metal”, because it doesn’t have any meaning for me. So, scratch that and
let’s just say that Nidsang plays dark, aggressive and ferocious black metal
and both songs from this EP make a great impression on me. It’s nothing
innovative, nothing groundbreaking, but very solid and surely powerful stuff. I
like the atmosphere of Nidsang music, I like the production, riffs and vocals,
so basically everything about this EP is great. The music is fast, really
relentless and obscure, it rages and spreads the darkness and hatred… And
having that straight forward and uncompromising attitude, they still have time
to include also some slower bits, guitar leads, not so much melody maybe, but
it’s still quite diverse and well composed stuff, with great arrangements and
sort of more demanding structures, as a lot is going on in each of these two
songs. Which both are really damn great, in my opinion and now I know that I
need to grab copies of both full length albums of Nidsang also. Which I shall
do ASAP, no matter the costs. Great band, even if quite unknown.
Final rate: 75/100
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