Review: Ildjarn forges songs around looping structures embedding melody in minimized and noisy riffs within droning entropy shaping rebirth and joyful nihilism. Influenced equally by Profanatica and drone techno, this band slice out instants of resonance in melody and internal harmony causing multiple themes to be encoded simultaneously within one clattering hypnotic beat cycle. Thoughtful yet adeptly perverse and savage in everything from sense of harmony to physical violence in playing, this music aims to be more extreme than black metal can now tolerate. A distorted flight of incoherent vocals keeps time to the evolution of these striking but sublime melodies. Like a vision of Ragnarok, this music shows a positivity in total negative space.
Production: This was recorded in the Norsk forests of a college dorm room using a four track machine underneath electric lines.
Stock:
5+
1. Whispering Breeze
2. Blackened Might
3. Clashing of Swords
4. No Gleaming Light
5. Blazing Eye
6. Sinking Deep
7. Chill of the Night (Returning)
8. The Blade Flares in Red Light
9. Deepening in Grey
10. Midnight Interval
11. Descending
12. Away with the Dawn
13. Before my Eyes Forever
14. Reflecting Mountains
15. Brother of the Forest
16. Dead Years
17. Dark December
18. Untitled 1
19. Cold And Waste
20. Visions of the Earth (2nd Returning)
21. Risen Seeds of Time
22. Untitled II
23. Untitled III
24. Winter Embrace
25. Untitled IV
26. No Place Nowhere
27. Entering/Descending
28. Deepening in Grey
29. Away With The Dawn
30. Brother Of The Forest
31. Der Moerkner (Darkening)
32. Arter En Gang (Once Again)
33. Skogssvinet (Beast Of The Woods)
34. Taakekein (Home Of Mist)/ Leaving
EVILMUSIC
metal, ambient, hardcore and noise music
Review: Ildjarn forges songs around looping structures embedding melody in minimized and noisy riffs within droning entropy shaping rebirth and joyful nihilism. Influenced equally by Profanatica and drone techno, this band slice out instants of resonance in melody and internal harmony causing multiple themes to be encoded simultaneously within one clattering hypnotic beat cycle. Thoughtful yet adeptly perverse and savage in everything from sense of harmony to physical violence in playing, this music aims to be more extreme than black metal can now tolerate. A distorted flight of incoherent vocals keeps time to the evolution of these striking but sublime melodies. Like a vision of Ragnarok, this music shows a positivity in total negative space.
