| Unholy Congregation of
Demonical Reign split TAPE 2011: Neftaraka / Black Abyss /
Heersch / Nachtmerrie by Zwaertgevegt (limited to 150
copies)
3: Nuclear Cleansing
7: Storm of Chaos
     
Review: Nachtmerrie (‘nightmare’)
kicks off the 4-way split tape with a nice piano tune,
followed by depressive black metal called Zwarte
dennen. While the piano sound is clear and suggests
a nice production, the black metal that follows is of the
thin underground variety, but not bad. There is some
keyboard hidden away under the moody guitars, and the
quirky gurgling vocals work in the band’s advantage.
The second track of the band, again, has a clear intro
with a clean guitar, before returning to the less
polished black metal as heard on the first song.
Heersch (‘reign’;
more or less) contributes two black metal tracks to the
compilation tape with such unusual riffs that with every
break I feel a surprise will surely come. It is combined
with the constantly alternating thrash-black-death metal
vocals and an abundance of “Cleansing!”-screams
in Nuclear Cleansing and “Stooooorm... of Chaos!”
in Storm of Chaos. The sound is black metal, the
material could have been bestial, if only the sound would
have been more death metal, but now it’s a thing on
its own, which works to its advantage... It’s
certainly the tape’s best band.
The two
Malay bands are more on the standard side of black metal,
but since they are not a subject of this website, I will
not fully review them. They do bring two more variations
on black metal production to the table, which makes this
tape nice to listen to in all its alternation.
Source: NLBMe exclusive,
February 2018.
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