HULDREFOLK – Morbide Elite CD
Iron Age Records
There are so many reasons why I like Extreme Metal. One reason for example is how so many bands go back into the past and base their music on historic events. This Flemish band’s second release is a concept album based around the black plague of the fourteenth century. Yes HULDREFOLK are Black Metal and who better to illustrate through music the wholesale death of millions. Morbide Elite opens with the death bells ringing and some light organ tune age to set the mood. What a fuckin miserable existence that must’ve been. You have to bring out your dead family members before they become a rat feast. From there the band keeps things essentially in the middle ages of the Black Metal musical realm. Think IMMORTAL or ENTHONED at their most filthy raw early beginnings. HULDREFOLK add some variety in song structures mixing speedy vile riffs and death blow drumming at some points. Other times they know how to spread the melodies out giving things a haunting like vibe. You could say they’re stressing the signs of those times. The bile and spittle tinged lyrics are sung in Flemish which really pushes the disgust level up a notch. Language is such an important catalyst on here because it gives the low-fi vocals and sound quality a pass. Although if this was clean sounding with added keyboard interludes I’d probably be vomiting Black Death myself. If their aim was to keep things miserable they’ve done it.
www.ironagerecords.com
No comments:
Post a Comment