Nihilistic Holocaust - apr 05 - by Gabsk

Rare are the black metal demos I can listen from the beginning to the end, without the appearance of boredom or a bestial anti-grim convulsion! But NIRNAETH remained entertaining enough in my hears.

It might be because the band didn't choose to play minimalist music nor decided to archaïcally record their songs, or because the decently structured 4 tracks of this demo aren't strictly bound in aggressive black metal fields (Some elements of Death and Heavy metal can be felt). All in all, what we have here is decent fast Black metal (that isn't too raw) and the band apparently has a will to compose logically structured tracks. The musicians decently handle their instruments, and even if his strange screamings aren't much of my kind, the vocalist sounds quite "entertaining".

Of course some things need to be improved: some riffs sound quite too much everheard (rework it?), it lacks of real surprises in structures, and the low frequencies happen to be overdriven (like some old demos). But for a first demo I must say it sounds quite encouraging.

I didn't feel something really emotional or deeply shocking, they do not seem to have blown a black fuse (what about a cerebral explosion of cancerous carbon?), but NIRNAETH seems to have enough darkened attributes to haunt the underground wanderings of some Black metal fans who do not limit themselves to sterile excrements!