| Split split TAPE 2010: Yaotzin / Adonai
Sathanas / Nord by Zwaertgevegt
3: Pest (De zwarte dood)
4: Satan My Master - Bathory cover
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release unknown
     
Review: First up are two
rehearsal tracks by Yaotzin - the band that impressed me
with the debut mini-CD Heaven Burning Bleeding.
But Yaotzin turned out to be the kind of band that
released every rehearsal or recording they ever did,
resulting in a long list of more-of-the-same, totally
pushing me towards avoidance. Don’t get me wrong, a
track like The Incarnation of Satan is worthy
stuff but really deserves a fierce studio production, and
not a second rate rehearsal sound. The Mayhem covers Freezing
Moon and Deathcrush are okay, and they
probably work really well live or as a well-produced
cover. However, I’m not waiting for a rehearsal of
these songs, other than by an early Mayhem line-up.
Adonai
Sathanas has chosen a very weird sound for its vocals.
While the instruments are sounding pretty decent -
although I suspect them being a rehearsal - the vocals
are weirdly balanced above the music, with a sound that
immediately brings to mind a microphone stand in a
shower. The Bathory cover Satan My Master is
enjoyable, and the vocals seem to be a little more
balanced here.
Nord
offers very low-fi black metal, starting after a
keyboard-intro that would have sounded too ramshackle
even in 1990-1992... The black metal needs a few moments
to warm up, but there are some moody riffs on Waar
ooit leven was worth listening to. The drums are
totally ignorable though, and sound like my own
teenage-experiments in the early 1990s. Conclusion: intro
and outro should have been skipped.
Source: NLBMe exclusive,
March 2018.
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