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Til
Minne…is
Trelldom’s second (third overall) release in nine years. And
with like any band that takes ages to issue an album one might
be inclined to set his/her expectations really high. But that’s
an unfair posture; just because so much time has passed since
the band's last release it does not mean that it has taken them that long to assemble the album in question.
Matter of fact, the newest release by this long standing project
of Gorgoroth’s Gaahl may have taken less time to make than any
of the records he has been previously involved in. Which would
actually explain the simplistic structures that round up as a
whole this release; as this trio creates one straight ahead riff
and runs with it for the duration of the song.
As Til
Minne… comes to a start, the title track slices skin with a
riff that sounds like Motorhead multiplied by three and the
pissed off grandfatherly high vocals of Gaahl providing either
comic relief or goosebumps to the untrained. The whole thing
kind of sounds like old school black metal with a lightweight
and clean production that lets the coldness of the music sip in.
On occasion there are some spoken words sparkled through some
songs, which remind me a bit of Emperor except here, I assume
Gaahl, delivers them with a lot less chivalry. Regardless Til
MInne… does sound like it was a quick album to make.
I know there
must be some sort of justification for that; the style Trelldom
plays is basically blunt and direct, and the riffs axeman
Valgard creates need not be questioned nor to be challenged.
“Bortkomne Gvar” or really anything else here, sounds like this
trio recorded about four seconds of music and then the thing was
set on a loop for about four minutes with Gaahl offering his
take on Norwegian black metal vocals. There are some abrupt
changes in tempo; “Fra Mitt Gamle” is fraught with them, but the
whole thing just doesn’t come together and sounds like a hasty
job at best. The surging vocals at the end of “Fra Mitt Gamle”
are awkward and for the most part as quickly as tracks start
they crash and burn without rhyme nor reason. I am not sure if I
am missing something, or if black metal’s uniqueness is supposed
to embrace all sorts of approaches to music but these songs
really bore me to sleep.
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