### Svartsyn: Wrath upon the Earth

#### 22/02/11 || Altmer

Welcome to the world of heavy metal anno 2011. What we have here is a nice Behemoth meets Emperor approach. You know what I’m thinking, right? Black metal, full of furious tempo, melodies, and absolutely pig-shitting vocals. Yes, the vocals sound constipated as fuck. Like he’s trying to shit… you guessed it, a pig. You wanna know something more? This is boring as shit. You wanna know something more? A little bit of terrible drum production does wonders for the quality of your band! You wanna know what this review will be about? It’s about another shitty band in a sea of shitty bands.

First of all, there’s the drums. It sounds like they are being played by someone with the IQ of a dead goldfish. DADADADADADUN. Every song. It’s like someone pressed the blastbeat button before recording this album. “Look, guys, maybe if I play this album at 200 bpm constantly, it’ll be interesting!”. Sometimes he blasts his beats a bit slower or faster. Maybe someone’s been dialing the tempo knob. Oh, now someone switched the knob on and off? Fuck you, drummer. Stop being so incredibly boring.

Second of all, the riffs are the same old tremolo weakness. No power, no ferocity, no nothing. They try to be a bit melodic and sound like Emperor at times, except without the cavernous reverb production of that band. The riffs, however, reek of compost. They also reek of the weak. This is black metal produced by a bunch of ten-year-olds that figured out that “maybe if you play real fast, it’ll sound good!” Newsflash: it doesn’t.

Then there’s the goblin vocals. I don’t think we should really waste any time on those since we all know how much black metal rasps suck in general. But if you want an idea, picture Van Drunen except really fucken horrible. Then you get somewhere close to what this band was aiming for. The song titles the vocalist has managed to shit are equally atrocious. “Deathsworned?” Fuuuuuuuuuuuck you.

The last part is that writing actual songs is terribly hard these days. No memorable riffs or parts. Just the same old weak blasts, growls, and the occasional “groovy riff” to release the monotony. I wanna fucken smack these guys upside the head with something because I just had to waste 30 minutes of my life with this crap when I could have been listening to good music. I think these guys should take a good dose of Deathspell Omega, Emperor, Keep of Kalessin and Watain and hope they learn from it because this weakass metal isn’t doing anything for me. And if you’re a bit sane, you’ll ignore it just like I did.

Recommendation: Learn how to compose. Or not suck. Fuck you.

- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: Agonia Records
- Website: Svartsyn MySpace
- Band
- Ornias: vocals, guitars
- (session) Baruch: intro, keys, drums
- (session) Zoran: bass, samples

- Tracklist
- 01. Intro
- 02. Wrath of Leviathan
- 03. My Mountain
- 04. Deathsworned
- 05. Dawn of Triumph
- 06. Pyramids of Deathlight
- 07. Blood Temple
- 08. He Who Knows