Nocternity, the Greek phenomenon of pagan black metal inspired by middle ages and mythology, significantly established their position with this EP released in 2001. This is a mixture of atmospheric music with aggression of thrash/black metal. Acoustic guitar really corresponds with skilfully played, very fast, and thrashy electric guitar. They mix into one great whirlwind of battle sound. Calmer moments introduce listeners to the realm of myths and battles and later they are raised to still atmospheric, thrashy variations. Finally they evolve to very thrashy and brutal chainsaw which gives a pleasant feeling of going back to 80’s/90’s kicking ass thrash. This is moreover flavoured with clean vocals reciting the words of men who stand against the God. Some battle noises are added as well. The album is rich in such kind of effects. The final impression may be only positive. The album is very poetic with its lyrics. Its concept is comparable to Greek tragedy scheme, in which there is no other option but to sin or die. Lyrics are also demonic and hellish (understand this word in vast context) but this does not mean that they are only blasphemic not poetic. This piece is one of the very few black metal classics from Greece. The item certainly worth buying, and whats more interesting, it was released by Kyrck which is also producer of armours.
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