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Artist: VARI
Album: Vihavald
Year: 2004
Vari (translation: shadow) is a young, promising
industrial black metal band/duo from Estonia. After some
time of experimenting, their debut demo was released in
2004. Vihavald (viha stands for anger, vald stands for
domain) is the given name to their seven-track debut
work.
From the first until the last track, this demo brings
you into an atmospheric world of cold, though powerful
industrial metal. For almost 33 minutes, this demo keeps
you wondering and surprised. First thing which surprised
me were the vocals. I was expecting high screams, but
pretty low, though real black metal vocals (who were
reminding me to Thyme -ex-Ragnarok- from time to time)
were delivered. The thing I usually got against this
kind of industrial black, is the lack of variation (only
the bigger bands like Aborym can satisfy me), but on
this demo there is loads of it. For example, track 4
(Tulemaa Pojad) is more of the brutal kind (specially
the intro), while track 2 (Meie Lugu) is more
atmospheric based. Talking about tracks, you want to
know my favourite track? Mina-igavene, without any
doubt! Awesome guitarwork mixed with orchestral synths
and powerful drum beats.. eargasm! But I am definitely
not saying that there is only one good song on this
one... hell no! The whole demo is a killer one (and also
the sound is surprisingly good for a debut demo). Some
additional info: The bonus part of this demo exists of a
track from a preverious demo. Oh, and the track titles
look nice as well, although I have no idea what they
mean (*wink*).
Vote: 87 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Edasi Minevikku
02. Meie Lugu
03. Saatus
04. Tulemaa Pojad
05. Mina-igavene
06. Manalateel
07. 11. Sümfoonia (first
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