Darkside
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1997 |
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1996 |
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| Label (s) | Black Mark Production | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
37:54 |
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Necrophobic, Tomas Skogsberg |
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Darkside is the second album by the Swedish band Necrophobic .
Emergence
Darkside was recorded between the 1996 lunar and solar eclipses at Sunlight Studio in Stockholm . David Parland , who had written some of the music and lyrics, was not involved in the recording except for the second guitar solo in Black Moon Rising ; he left the band around the time the EP Spawned by Evil was released (spring 1996). During the recording, Sebastian Ramstedt became a permanent member of Necrophobic, but only played the first guitar solo on the album for Spawned by Evil and Darkside . He “didn't have the leisure to deal with all the songs in detail in advance, while the others have already poured their heart and soul into it for several years”. In Nailing the Holy One had Jon Nödtveidt of Dissection with guest vocals. The album was mixed and produced by the band and Tomas Skogsberg , while Anders Lindström and Fred Estby were involved as sound engineers . It was mastered in the cutting room.
Track list
- Black Moon Rising - 2:51 (Text and music: Parland )
- Spawned by Evil - 3:21 (Text: Sidegård; Music: Parland, Halfdan)
- Bloodthirst - 3:39 (Text: Sterner; Music: Parland, Sterner, Halfdan)
- Venaesectio (Episode One) - 1:23 (Music: Sidegård)
- Darkside - 3:55 (Text: Sterner; Music: Parland, Halfdan, Sidegård)
- The Call - 3:26 (Text: Parland, Halfdan, Sidegård; Music: Parland, Sidegård)
- Descension (Episode Two) - 1:21 (Music: Sidegård)
- Nailing the Holy One - 2:42 (Text: Parland, Sterner, Halfdan, Sidegård; Music: Parland)
- Nifelhel - 4:12 (Music: Halfdan)
- Christian Slaughter - 6:16 (Text: Sterner, Halfdan; Music: Sterner, Halfdan)
Music style and lyrics
On Darkside, the band “remained largely true to their Death Metal roots” and mixes “hyperspeed riffs […] with straight, unspectacular, but effective drumming […] and […] always with the melodic arcs that are so typical for Sweden”. However, the vocals are based on the screeching typical of Nordic Black Metal instead of the “Thrashy, slightly Death-Metallic vocals of the first disc”, and Bloodthirst and Darkside are also based on Nordic Black Metal. The tremolo riffing, which "forms the main part of the ominous compositions with subliminal melodies", ensures that the album sounds "a good deal more black metallic". Accordingly, the band itself writes that with this album they "moved further into the dark and evil domains". The style has been compared to Dissection, Sacramentum, and in Nailing the Holy One , Grotesque .
reception
Frank Albrecht from Rock Hard wrote in his review that he was pleased "to hear that the Swedes have largely remained true to their Death Metal roots". He describes the singing as a slight attachment "to the current trend" and points to the Black Metal orientation of the songs Bloodthirst and Darkside ; However, these have "so much style that they only enhance the overall impression". Christoph Meul from metal.de, on the other hand, wrote that the album was "neither the calculating jump on the black metal train, which was quickly picking up speed at the time, that some made of it, nor the (underrated) flawless masterpiece that others see in it". Comparisons with Dissection's early work and Sacramentum fit “like a fist in the eye, but 'Darkside', in contrast to ' The Somberlain ' and ' Far Away From The Sun ', is a touch more malicious and colder, not least because of the vocals and sound”. The “handsome artwork by Kristian Wahlin ” fits “perfectly with the conveyed mood, but the song titles and lyrics are too one-dimensional and black metal stereotype (it is all about the cliché triad of deeper Satan , dead Christians and deep forests) [ ...]. [...] Small flaws like the very tight playing time and the too banal lyrics ultimately prevent the title 'masterpiece'. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Story so far ... ( Memento from May 26, 2001 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 23, 2013.
- ^ Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: Necrophobic . In: Legacy . No. 4 ( legacy.de [accessed June 24, 2013]). Necrophobic ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Frank Albrecht: Necrophobic . Darkside. In: Rock Hard . No. 118 ( rockhard.de [accessed June 11, 2013]).
- ↑ a b c d e Christoph Meul: Necrophobic - Darkside. metal.de, January 13, 2011, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ^ Eckart Maronde: Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence. metal.de, January 13, 2011, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Moses: NECROPHOBIC - Darkside (Re-Release). Terrorverlag, April 5, 2011, accessed June 24, 2013 .
