lista zespołów Black Metal Nokturnal Misanthropy Eterna Notte

Nokturnal Misanthropy are the latest grim, frost bitten horde of black metallers to come crawling out of the woodwork, but from the less snowy and darkened Italy. It always strikes me as odd that bands can play such harsh, Scandinavian music when they come from sunny places, but hey, these things happen. The 'Eterna Notte' demo is five bleak compositions of the grimmest, underproduced black metal I've heard all year.

The first thing you will noticed about these tracks is how buried the vocals are amongst swathes of droning black metal riffage and melancholic piano lines. It sounds like the vocalist recorded this at the bottom of a well, or in a cave somwhere. It suits the depressive nature of the music however, with lonesome shrieks emerging from gloomy atmospheric passages. The tracks are generally 6-7 minutes long of hypnotic, looping riffs, deathly howls and the mournful piano; which adds a particular melancholy to the whole affair. Best track here is probably the titanic 'Into the Night', opening with an excellent picked intro which fades into a bleak, oppressive soundscape riff.

The question with these guys, along with the majority of depressive black metal bands, is how long can the average listener listen to this before they feel almost irreversably suicidal. Perhaps that is the desired effect, and at no point do you feel that Nokturnal Misanthropy are outstaying their welcome, but this kind of length of release suits the style.

Nokturnal Misanthropy brings nothing really new to the genre; their demo is decent enough but there's little divergences from the formula to revolutionise anything. However, it is definitely not a bad attempt, and worth a listen for fans of this particular genre.