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SKITLIV
Amfetamin
(Cold Spring)
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This
first official release by Maniac’s (formerly of the
mighty Mayhem, where he had two stints from 1986 thru
1988 and from 1995-thru 2004) new project Skitliv sounds
a bit like a demo. And it certainly seems assembled as
such too. But that’s just fine, no need to polish the
unpolishable. Amfetamin starts with the studio
version of the title track and “Slow Pain Coming”, both
of which are then reprised in live versions, though one
would have a very difficult time trying to recognize
them.
As Maniac
had announced before, Skitliv is not your typical goat
worshipping band. The title track sounds like a proper
beginning; trembling strings, experimental noise, background
static and bone chilling vocals while “Slow Pain Coming” serves
more honour to Maniac’s assertion that Skitliv is a ‘black
noise doom metal’ band. The music is slow and pairs up
downtempo music to black metal vocals with appropriate horrific
noise experimentations. The vocals are still deranged and
demented. All in all, it’s harsh experimental music taken to the
extreme but fans of electronic noise will find very little to
dig here.
What makes
Amfetamin actually bizarre is the disparity between the
studio and the live recordings. To me, the live recordings is
what makes Amfetamin worth owning. True, once you get
past the stellar intro (“Who Will Deliver Us From Gold &
Planets”) courtesy of Current 93 what we are treated to is
pretty effective doom metal and that’s about it. And true, the
songs actually sound like a rehearsal more than a planned
recording but that’s kind of the charm. Recorded at the Camden
Underworld in December, 2007, Skitliv (which in Swedish means
‘shit life’) comes off here like a straight up doom metal
band, with very little of the ‘black noise’ Maniac talks
about. It’s good stuff all around, just not very groundbreaking
or even unheard, from whichever angle you see it.
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