Lista de Bandas Black Metal Lutemkrat The Last Survivor

When I saw that this was a Brazilian black metal band, I was expecting something raw and brutal. But no, I was wrong. Just as the album art depicts a black wolf resting in the snow, this band is a different animal than the Brazilian brutal death metal stereotypes. It sounds like cold pagan black metal from Scandinavia.

This is the debut album from this one man black metal band from Curitiba, Brazil. Curitiba is located 216 miles southwest of Sao Paulo and 60 miles inland from the Atlantic coast. The artist goes by the name of Wolf Lutemkrat. Lutemkrat has no meaning in any dictionary, but he associates the meaning with destruction, war, chaos, hatred, loyalty, and honor.

He wanted to perform this album independently, because he didn't want to compromise his musical and artistic talents. The guitars play a lot of Scandinavian style high note grinding with melodic riffs. The bass playing accentuates the mood and provide a lot of harmony to the guitar playing. The drum playing is nothing spectacular, but it is adequate. The vocals sound like some harsh and grim screaming provided with echoes and slightly distorted. The vocals sound like Taake.

The intro is 57 seconds of Latin style acoustic guitar playing. The Silent Death sounds like Taake. Very intricate guitar shredding at a fast tempo and then at a slower tempo accompanied by an atmospheric bass harmony. The Last Survivor sounds a lot like the Kampfar song, Van Sinn(from their Heimgang album), then inverts with an interlude that sounds similar to the Dimmu Borgir song Relinquishment Of Spirit And Flesh. Then this song reverts back to the Kampfar style. Vengeance sounds a lot like the style of Svartsyn, though it starts off sounding like the Dark Fortress song, Passage To Extinction. Awaiting The Final Breath starts off sounding like Taake and then concludes sounding like Kampfar. Journey Through Inner Landscape sounds more like Kampfar. Grieving Over The Dead sounds more like a Burzum song. Outro: Surviving is 2:19 of boring acoustical guitar play.

So why the hell would someone want to buy a Brazilian imitation of Scandinavian metal? Well as you probably know, a few of the albums by Taake, Kampfar, and Svartsyn aren't very good. This album by Lutemkrat is very good. So if you like those other bands that I've mentioned, check this one out. You won't be disappointed.