Reviews for Hades Almighty - Alone Walkyng (demo):
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Review from www.anus.com Production: Warm rounded production that emphasizes bass and vocals while maintaining a comfortable space for guitars and drums, creating relatively little distortion between those levels. Production is somewhat flat and tape-y, losing dynamic range on some sounds. Overall reasonably representative of the style of the music. Review: In pursuit of the Viking ethic of rock Hades have like many contemporary bands have explored minimalistic dirges that echo the stomp of marching men or oars in a warship, using simple beats and resonating downstroke riffs to bring an atmosphere of primitive warfare and social conquest. The atavistic mandate underlies the sentiment of despair and the feral hopelessness of nihilism, but at the core this is ethnic pop music, roaring out simple beats with a broad strum barraging chords into the ear over the simple walking beat of highhat syncopation to a slapping stridemarker, breaking riffs into ascending and descending pieces or emphasisizing the consistency of an aggressive beat. Most rhythmic patterns are absolutely regressive in nature and are constructed from a motion awareness of an overall rhythm, rather than composition of relative rhythmic intervals to create a grid of definitive rhythm. Consequently it sets a space in which the riff is glad to intrude, forcing the dominant downstroke pattern as the part of the guitar playing that is heard that is not a distorted overflow of recombinant melody. This is not articulated to the level of, say, Burzum, but Hades easily better Storm and Isengard at this technique and compete well with DarkThrone or Throne of Ahaz for this sound of metal. Useful accompaniment by both guitars, and clean acoustic interludes, garnish an engaging meal. The music is relatively predictable but has its surprises, and articulates well its emotion. Three songs: Unholy Congregation, Hecate (Queen of Hades), and Alone Walkyng, of which the second was on their full-length debut. Review by: jørn T. Indisputably, this is one of the most beautiful Black Metal demos. The crown of the creation is definitely the title song, which was the first Hades Almighty's song I've ever heard, and which grabbed my attention at once (from my nickname you may note it still keeps my interest). The music in this demo creates a kind of occult atmosphere with its moderate tempo and dark medieval lyrics (the lyric of the first song is a tale about witchcraft, the second's - invocation to Heacte, and the last's - poem by Richard Chaucer, written in 1572) . Although the band is obviously inspired by the Bathory's albums '87-'90, Hades Almighty make their successful trial to offer something new to the Black Metal scene. Review by: Alone Walkyng Ingenious accoustics, but "metal" parts quite boring. Actually another Bathory clone. For die hard Norsecore fans only. Review by: K.K.		Use the textarea below to write your review of this album. Please obey to these rules: - Write the review in ENGLISH! - Do not ask or offer mp3's - Reviews of 5 words or less are no reviews - Do not flame other reviewers. Use the forum for that If you do not follow these rules your review will NOT be added. Username: Password: (To get a username and password you have to register.)
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