| Unholy Congregation of
Demonical Reign split TAPE 2011: Neftaraka / Black Abyss /
Heersch / Nachtmerrie by Zwaertgevegt (limited to 150
copies)
1: Zwarte dennen
5: Zuiverheid en pracht, voor volk en vaderland
line-up:
Nachtdwaaler (instruments, vocals)
     
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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