There is a certain level of rawness, vileness, and nastiness that you expect from black metal. It's the nature of the genre. But this? This is a bit too much even for me. Rumor has it that Meyhnach and his fellow band mates had only learned how to play their respective instruments a matter of weeks before the recording of this demo. Whether that's true or not, it certainly wouldn't surprise me. Other than the utter shittiness of the sound quality (it makes Mayhem's Voice of a Tortured Skull sound almost genius in comparison), there's the completely uninspired guitar playing and the struggling drums. When I say "uninspired", I mean that the guitar playing is so rudimentary that they recycle similar riffs from song to song. Also, the song structures themselves are lacking. Most of them usually alternate between a slow riff pattern and some faster tremolo picking styled riffs (the first such riff doesn't make its appearance until two-and-a-half minutes into the second track). And that pattern gets stale after seven songs. And when I say the drums struggle, I mean that the rhythm the drums are laying down rarely match the rhythm of the guitar. There is obvious potential in this release, and later Mütiilation releases realize that potential, but damn, this is just rough.
