BEATRIK - Journey Through the end of life 

This Lp is already a collector item, an album that show how superb can be the darkest form of Black Metal played by an elite band, the opener song is the most clear manifesto to this endless fall to the farthest dimension of obscuirity, a travel so deep to loose every memory of the past normality.
The second song, with its slow gait, is like a march to the grave until a monumental riff suddenly brake one like a blaze in a grey mist and after the storm is gone here back a suffered atmosphere...simply astonishing. A Black Metal strongly influenced by the early ’90 is preformed in a very dangerous way, a depressive vision, like a nocturnal wandering, alone from everything of the human being. The voice is very effected, sometimes a bit too much, but it’s not a big problemn because the feeling of this album is totally unusual, there’s nothing of the ordinary way to present old-style Black Metal but there’s something more, a colder matter...
"Last Dawn" is a title that speaks itself, its burzumish obscurity is a cult to my ears, it’s full of introspective pathos. The title-track is the sum of all the incredible atmosphere and mood of this creation, last but not the least the unforgivable Burzum’s cover "Spell of Destruction", one of my all-time preferred songs just to say, the result is very good but the best version of this song has been done by Nargaroth on "Amarok" with a slower rhythm.  The music played by this outstanding band have a an edge between the cold but harmonic riffs and those who are more disharmonic, creating a surreal feeling, where the dark shadow cover a shading scenario, submerging everything... 

Ild  Vote 6/6

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