NEBEL - Hymns Of Destruction
Adipocere Records
I’ve listened very
carefully this album, and the first time I was not very impressed, but listening
time by time this album caught my attention more and more...this guys from
France are able to play a straight and relatively simple black metal with very
good guitar riffs and together with
a bit particular voice they can recreate a very good atmosphere though the whole
album, to be more accurate I can describe their style of playing black metal
like a mixture of early Marduk and a bit of old Immortal stuff. The production
is good for a raw style but it’s
possible to hear clearly all the instruments at the same time, the only thing
that after listening to it I found a bit boring is the way that the drums are
played"always the same"like Darkthrone’s Transilvanian Hunger, but
it’s not a bad thing, it gives a claustrophobic and suffocating touch to the
album, I think that this aspect falls under the label "De gustibus..."
Definitely is a good album, very well played and with a good atmosphere with no
particular highlights...and nowadays these qualities are not crap, I hope to
hear something more of Nebel in the near future, maybe something with a bit more
"personal.. touch"however it’s another
sign that France have good bands...luckily in France there isn’t only
the crap that the Osmose tries to spread...
Sephrenel