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Nuit Noire - (2010) Delirant Fantaesy 7''
Three songs in the typical NN tradition of playing black metal informed pop-punk with a perfect sincere rawness. These songs fit in nicely with any later NN material and possess the same catchiness that Tenebras has been known to imbue his songs with.
Nuit Noire's message has always been naive, but by way of sheer stubbornness and purity of vision has become a very challenging group in the world of black metal. It definitely lacks many 'black' qualities but wears others so boldly that not many bands can be considered as honest in presenting youthful romanticism. NN is always polarizing but never fails in creating a guitar tone that seems to reach beyond this plane to the next. Typical release: xerox covers, insert, and all black vinyl limited to 200 copies.
Fäerical blasting punk. Less a genre, more an abstract impression of Nuit Noire: Blasting punk – an inimitable mixture of intense drumming and beautifully singular guitars. Natural, unrestrained, atypical vocals sing out in admiration of those Night creatures that light the darkness, aided only by moonlight shadows cast in the forest, hidden from all humanity.
Nuit Noire's message has always been naive, but by way of sheer stubbornness and purity of vision has become a very challenging group in the world of black metal. It definitely lacks many 'black' qualities but wears others so boldly that not many bands can be considered as honest in presenting youthful romanticism. NN is always polarizing but never fails in creating a guitar tone that seems to reach beyond this plane to the next. Typical release: xerox covers, insert, and all black vinyl limited to 200 copies.
Fäerical blasting punk. Less a genre, more an abstract impression of Nuit Noire: Blasting punk – an inimitable mixture of intense drumming and beautifully singular guitars. Natural, unrestrained, atypical vocals sing out in admiration of those Night creatures that light the darkness, aided only by moonlight shadows cast in the forest, hidden from all humanity.
White Medal - (2008) ST 7''
This vinyl EP was the first release from Yorkshire-based black metal band White Medal.
Side A contains ‘Chance’ (subtitled ‘Rebirth’) , which opens with a soft melodic guitar and bass intro, which is rapidly obliterated by blasting, ferocious riffing, hyper-distorted and compressed to the point where the drums are a muffled thudding, overlaid with a frenzied blur of guitar, and vicious screamed vocals melding with ambient keyboard drones into a whipping vortex of oblivion. There’s a melodic subtext just about barely discernible here, but you need to be listening out for it. To some extent, I was reminded of the English band Instinct, who deploy a similar blend of aggression and melody, but White Medal’s most obvious affinity is to black metal primitivists like Ildjarn, Beherit, Svartpest and Bone Awl.
Side B is ‘Northern Mist’ (subtitled ‘Raven's Dusk’), with a harsh cawing of ravens heard above the buzzsaw guitar at the outset, before the song develops into a similar entropic surge as ‘Chance’, with the vocals a shredded howl and the drums thoroughly buried, although there seems to be a metronome or click track audible at points. A couple of times, there’s a melodic hiatus before the riff surges back in like a riptide.
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