Description
A brilliant alliance between these two great projects of the Dutch scene.
After a comeback last year in a brilliant split with Sternklang and a new project called Wanklank, Jeroen (Owl, Frostbite, Wanklank, Irrswich), one of the crucial names in the Lobith scene, presents the 9th release under the Nord moniker. With two very different tracks this time, the first is a bleak, mid-paced, hypothermia-inducing composition, more or less in the typical Nord style, with freezing melancholy slowly leaving you immobilized, and Jeroen’s great melodic leads and layering. The second track, on the other hand, while perfectly fitting, is much more feral and crushing; a freezing blitzkrieg of deadly riffing and programmed drums that feel like ice spears raining upon you.
Vengeful Spirit, on the other side, is a relatively new, mysterious project that presented its debut demo, Demo I – Yurei, last year via the great Kaladruna. It delivers two new tracks here, perfectly complementing Nord‘s side with bleak, malign, spectral raw Black Metal, featuring hypnotizing, necrotic riffing and enchanting basslines. Like Nord, the first track here is more mid-paced, trance-inducing, with very interesting spoken vocals as well as ominous chants, while the second track is faster and barbaric.
