### Im Nebel: Vitriol

#### 10/12/08 || Kampfar

Im Nebel has something to do with fog, “nebel” namely the German word for such weather, but this band ain’t German, no, no, they hail from Georgia. No, not the state you bloody imbecile, try the country only existing because Putin hasn’t ordered for it to be wiped off the map just yet. Got it? Anyway, I’m quite sure this is my first ever take on a band from said part of the world – not that it makes me happy, it just is. So, how does it feel to penetrate virgin soil, good enough to make me visit The Metal Archives, pen down everything Georgian and henceforth download the lot? Yeah, right, right in the same way Georgia wasn’t a tool the US used to test the Russian bear this summer (2008). Oh, would someone please nuke the fucking Kung Fu Panda already?

If you got lost in the paragraph above, forgiven you are, so let me clarify by informing that I’m currently downloading not one single Georgian band. And if I ever do again, it will be by chance and not a deliberate act per se. See, at times I visit Mediaportal and do some clean sweeps, and that site links to many an obscure band, you bet, so it may very well happen. But I won’t download Im Nebel no more.

Why? Well, it’s not because they are utterly talentless, that’s for sure, more because they aren’t even close being brilliant at anything either. But even if they had been fucking brilliant, every last bit of their music executed with perfection, I would care only a fig or two more. And the reason why is simple, as I happen to have never fancied atmospheric and pretentious almost-almost-extreme-metal. If you by any chance do, leave the site and check them out already.

Blah, the guitar work is competent, the solos especially, and the vocalist should also be credited for sporting a range. Hell, the fucknut in question is even able to push his clean vocals, which comes in addition to a standard sneer, far beyond mumbling. Not that I dig his take on actual singing, fuck no, I just felt for acknowledging that he got a clue or two. By the way, I don’t dig his “extreme” vocals very hard either. So, a vocalist I don’t like very much, and a couple of solos, are the highlights on this here disc of extreme RPG metal I recommend none of our readers to give a go.

This shit was sent to us, so you needn’t bother your stupid head with why “Vitriol” got something resembling a review in the first place.

3,5 out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2008
- Label: Haarbn Prod.
- Website: www.imnebel.com
- Band
- Vasil Doiashvili: vocals
- Michael Lenz: guitar, vocals
- Sergiy Ermolaev: bass
- Helen Chobanyan: (cheap) keyboard
- Dima Mazmanov: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Intro
- 02. Inconsistent thoughts
- 03. Faded mankind
- 04. Zeitgeist
- 05. Unbeliever’s script
- 06. The journey to the center of I
- 07. Exodus