Vreid - Milorg

\r\nThese Norwegiens have a real drama haunting their backs. Coming from the ashes of Windir when they lost their vocalist by a snowstorm(hypothermia!!) the project went on as Veird since the deceased was a founding member. But enough with history lessons. This is their fourth album to date and the first time I come to direct contact with their tunes.
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\r\n The truth is, I had a specific feeling about the content:blasting brutality, just by looking at the minimal artwork on the cover. And this is what I got during the first song. Amazing black metal in an epic mood and a warlusting apettite. But as the album progressed it all started melting. The fury, the angst dropped to a level that the riffing was heavymetal-ish and you could swear the soriffs would fit in a Dark Tranquillity album. While the first blow was promising enough the outcome left a bitter taste, not because the songs were bad or something but because I wanted snow but got sunrays. I just thought/wanted this to move on equally extreme - if not more.
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\r\n It’s not all bad, it’s just that you’re given a whole different taste beforehand and the aftertaste bewilders the senses. The songs are exactly how they’re supposed to be...for the style they’re aimed at. Not the grim type of black metal, more like a candy for Dissection lovers but it all comes down eventually like the beloved swedes’ career did a hew years back.
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\r\n Lyrically the album shows another aspect of extreme metal: conceptual themes. The lyrics are based on the poems written by a soldier during Norway’s struggle in the second world war. I haven’t read them thoroughly but truth is, it takes a huge pair of balls to compile a concept album. The band is not inexperienced. Having toured with Enslaved, having played Inferno and Wacken shows exactly the opposite. So, it’s just another matter of appetite. You either like it or not. I surely did not go mad...\r\n

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\r\nGiannis rem3dy Nakos\r\n

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