lista zespołów Black Metal Gmork Svarte Vann

There is so much great music that you, or at least I, have never heard of. Gmork, from Russia, is one of those bands. They are a Black Metal band with no cleans and no keyboards. Even though they are black metal, this release is so listenable with great quality and a great mix. I bet the sound is even better live though and I would love to see them one day.

The first song on this short release is “Empty Scream”. It starts out with typical but compelling tremolo riffing. This song has a sort of epic, natural sound to it. The feel was sort of medieval too. It made me feel like I was in the days of kings and castles built into high mountain sides. There were low and high double tracked vocals which were excellent. Some of the sweeps and lead works were kind of basic but very fitting with the rest of the music. The only problem with this song was that it was hardly over 2 minutes long.

The next song, which was over 5 minutes long, was called “Svarte Vann”. Since the last song on this release was a cover and I wouldn’t say a cover is ever a band's best song (because it’s not their work), I would give the title of best song to this track. And this is a great fucking song. From the start the bass catches my ear with a loose and somewhat twangy sound, adding great character to the song. I also thought this was a stronger track because it was more depressive sounding. The riffs as well, were more interesting on this track. The whole song was excellently arranged, the rhythm and lead guitars fit so perfectly together. The intricacy of this track was incredible.

The final song was, “I am the Killer of Trolls,” an Impaled Nazarene cover. They pretty much nailed this one. The vocal job done on this was the best part.

This was some great music and I hope to hear a lot more from these guys.