Slidhr hail from Ireland and with this demo present us with three tracks
of harsh black metal. Darkthrone's aesthetic heritage once again rears
its ugly head with its minimalistic rhythm section that sets the
scaffold for the crisply grim riffage. Taking off from formulaic yet
always effective guitar themes it sets an all-too-familiar atmosphere of
black metal dissonance - furnished with a suffocating, sepulchral aura
of USBM - that should easily find its place in any dedicated fan's soul.
The approach that Slidhr - or rather Gast - is undertaking is well suited for any song structure not willing to stride far from the conventional acrimonious sound that has been en vogue since the early 90's. It's a demo that fits well somewhere between your first two Immortal albums and Behemoth's early forays into black metal (mind you the atmosphere here is at times considerably more claustrophobic than the aforementioned), providing an approximate 20-minute fix of utter hopelessness.
The approach that Slidhr - or rather Gast - is undertaking is well suited for any song structure not willing to stride far from the conventional acrimonious sound that has been en vogue since the early 90's. It's a demo that fits well somewhere between your first two Immortal albums and Behemoth's early forays into black metal (mind you the atmosphere here is at times considerably more claustrophobic than the aforementioned), providing an approximate 20-minute fix of utter hopelessness.
(originally written for Metal Archives - April 15th, 2007)
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