Veles
Black Hateful Metal
[No Colours]
This is the second album from Polish white power black metallists VELES, raw and
excellent – one of this reviewer’s favorites ever.
The guitars on this album sound very thin and ”poor” in the Polish way, they are eerie squeals and buzzes in the distance, semi-organic, total horror. Vocals are reverbed screams closer to BURZUM than Rob Darken and drums snap like mousetraps in this very clear production that yet is very thin and unlike anything I’ve heard before.
From the primitivity of this record arise many feelings; some have suggested or claimed even knowledge that this album has been recorded as a ”joke” or as a way out of recording contract with No Colours, but nothing will change the fact that this is an extreme and experimental album, this is almost ”ritual jazz”. All of the black metal songs are composed of a couple un-melodic, sometimes atonal riffs that monotonously repeat as some odd wind patterns in the background of the repeating screams of HATE. There are many interludes, simple folk acoustics and some epic keyboards from Rob Darken again… some of these interludes sound absurdly happy when contrasted to the main content of this album!
As a bonus there is also VELES demo ”Triumph of Pagan Beliefs” on the CD, which is quite similar in style to their first album; that is raw, yet almost harmoniously moving and pleasant quality black metal.
This is TRUE stuff.
© 2000 black hate
The guitars on this album sound very thin and ”poor” in the Polish way, they are eerie squeals and buzzes in the distance, semi-organic, total horror. Vocals are reverbed screams closer to BURZUM than Rob Darken and drums snap like mousetraps in this very clear production that yet is very thin and unlike anything I’ve heard before.
From the primitivity of this record arise many feelings; some have suggested or claimed even knowledge that this album has been recorded as a ”joke” or as a way out of recording contract with No Colours, but nothing will change the fact that this is an extreme and experimental album, this is almost ”ritual jazz”. All of the black metal songs are composed of a couple un-melodic, sometimes atonal riffs that monotonously repeat as some odd wind patterns in the background of the repeating screams of HATE. There are many interludes, simple folk acoustics and some epic keyboards from Rob Darken again… some of these interludes sound absurdly happy when contrasted to the main content of this album!
As a bonus there is also VELES demo ”Triumph of Pagan Beliefs” on the CD, which is quite similar in style to their first album; that is raw, yet almost harmoniously moving and pleasant quality black metal.
This is TRUE stuff.
© 2000 black hate