{"id":1824,"date":"2023-05-16T01:14:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagnik-zine.net\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2023-05-16T01:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:14:44","slug":"%d0%b1%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%86-%d1%80%d0%b5%d1%86%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b7%d0%b8%d0%b8-38-aempyrean-vananidr-zealot-cult-oreida-siculicidium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagnik-zine.net\/en\/arch\/1824\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitz reviews 38: AEMPYREAN, VANANIDR, ZEALOT CULT, \u00d3REI\u00d0A, SICULICIDIUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>38th part of the short reviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AEMPYREAN \u2013 Fireborn<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Year of release:<\/span>\u00a02018<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Label:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclopeaneye.com\">Cyclopean Eye Productions<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Rating:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">6,5 \/ 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fast and chaotic Death Metal in the vein of early MORBID ANGEL and ABSU. Everything is played very diligently and correctly, there are atmospheric solos, but the music is spoiled by a weak, thin sound. The band is originally from India, so it is excusable, but the result, however, is affected anyways. A press release promising to tear the listener apart with the power of a chainsaw does not justify itself - the album is not bad, but it is difficult to call it powerful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 688px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=102502853\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=e32c14\/package=625943214\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclopeaneyeproductions.bandcamp.com\/album\/fireborn-black-death-metal\">Fireborn (Black\/Death Metal) by Aempyrean<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>VANANIDR \u2013 Vananidr<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Year of release:<\/span>\u00a02018<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Label:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purity-through-fire.com\">Purity Through Fire<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Rating:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5,6 \/ 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nordic metal from Sweden, quite openly focused on IMMORTAL and a little bit on other classic Scandinavian formations. There are really indecently many familiar motives but the music is inherently very primitive. It can take only 1-2 listenings. The vocal is bad, the lyrics are even worse - the simplicity on the verge of idiocy. If anyone remembers the lyrics for the OBITUARY debut, then here it is almost the same, only about frost and northern warriors. The author of the project has a black stain on his career - participation in SATAN'S PENGUINS - so it is not surprising. Once a clown - always a clown. Listening to VANANIDR is not necessary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Vananidrs debut album out now!\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_8fmW3S_LJIQ\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8fmW3S_LJIQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fmW3S_LJIQ\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M2S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-03-17T16:39:19Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_8fmW3S_LJIQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8fmW3S_LJIQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Vananidrs debut album out now!<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8fmW3S_LJIQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8fmW3S_LJIQ\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Vananidrs debut album out now!\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Originally self-released digitally, Vananidr might be Vananidr&#039;s first public recording, but the band&#039;s history stretches back many years - which is immediately evident once the listener is presented with such black metal of an ancient vintage. Vananidr&#039;s history begins in the mid &#039;90s when Titan (now in IXXI) forms the band Hydra. In 1999, he is accompanied by Anders Eriksson AKA Flame (guitar), Erebus (vocals), and Thunder (drums, now also in IXXI). Over the next five years, they record several demos and an album titled Phaedra. When recordings for the second album are begun, Erebus quits the band and the following year Titan also quits. In 2010, Anders picks up the pieces of the unfinished recordings and records the vocals himself, and the album is finally finished under a new band name: Synodus Horrenda. Progress is slow, but in 2017, Anders completes a new album with Thunder on drums and later changes the band name once again to the more suiting Vananidr. With Anders now the only remaining member from the Hydra years since Thunder disappeared along the way, at last is Vananidr&#039;s self-titled album prepared to breathe cold, cryptic life into classicist, &#039;90s-style black metal. Somber, shadowy, and evoking a woodland mysticism, Vananidr weaves an extremely subtle-but-intense spell, as melodies from Swedish folk music rise to the fore above steadily pulsing &amp; winding blackness that&#039;s neither overly raw nor too polished. While song titles such as &quot;Warfare&quot; and &quot;Raging Blizzards&quot; might suggest a more violent aspect to Vananidr - and indeed, the album begins with a bang - the likes of &quot;Frostbitten Kingdom&quot; and especially &quot;Enter Eternity&quot; or more telling of its tale... Like many records under the Purity Through Fire banner, the past is truly alive with Vananidr&#039;s Vananidr! Tracklisting are as follows: Tracklisting for Vananidr&#039;s Vananidr 1. Raging Blizzards 2. Frostbitten Kingdom 3. Abomination of Evil 4. Projections 5. Rise 6. Warfare 7. Enter Eternity 8. Psalm till D\u00f6den MORE INFO: www.facebook.com\/vananidr\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>ZEALOT CULT \u2013 Spiritual Sickness<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Year of release:<\/span>\u00a02018<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Label:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodharvest.se\">Blood Harvest<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Rating:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">7 \/ 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another followers of MORBID ANGEL in today's Blitz, but more skillful. Here we got front cover from Paolo Girardi, the sound from the right place, and the manner of performance is less pretentious. The vocals are cool - strained vomiting a-la John Tardy. The style of playing sometimes copies MORBID ANGEL so much that it\u2019s scary: just listen to these heavy riffs with flageolets on \u201cSea of Suffering\u201d. Not being a fan of MA, I am not thrilled with the album, but I cannot but recognize its strength. I recommend you to check out this good old school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 787px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3311213741\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=e99708\/package=1509600435\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/spiritual-sickness\">Spiritual Sickness by ZEALOT CULT<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00d3REI\u00d0A \u2013 \u00d3rei\u00f0a<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Year of release:<\/span>\u00a02019<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Label:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.signalrex.com\">Harvest of Death<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Rating:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">no rating<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As you may have guessed by the name, this is an Icelandic project. Anonymous - of course! - and, which is absolutely predictable, from a guy with a bag on his head. The Icelandic scene makes me increasingly reluctant - it seems to have turned into a trend devouring itself even before it could grow into something serious. Wherever you go, you will find these terribly occult and confused anonymous projects, diligently trying to seem like something big and inaccessible to the mere mortal. This release from \u00d3REI\u00d0A, for example, consists of 4 long tracks of primitive crude blasting a la ILDJARN + sounds of sea waves. No vocals. In principle, this can be listened to as a tolerable ambient, but the usual enthusiastic press release, which describes the album\u2019s claims to various lofty matters, discourages any desire to touch it again. It is clear that all this is subjective, therefore I will refrain from ratings this time.<br \/>\n...they even pressed this on vinyl. What a showoff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 655px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=770328307\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=ffffff\/package=2326267229\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oreida.bandcamp.com\/album\/rei-a\">\u00d3rei\u00f0a by \u00d3REI\u00d0A<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SICULICIDIUM \u2013 A hal\u00e1l \u00e9s az ir\u00e1nyt\u0171<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Year of release:<\/span>\u00a02019<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Label:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunandmoonrecords.com\">Sun &amp; Moon Records<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\">Rating:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">7 \/ 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>SICULICIDIUM is the project of the participants of WOLFSGREY, the Romanian band that I remember thanks to uch an archaic sound as if it really was created in Transylvanian forests hundreds of years ago. SICULICIDIUM is more modern but not by much. The new seven-inch contains two tracks where the classic Eastern European melody and the rather elegant Transylvanian darkness are perfectly combined. The vocals performed in the manner of the Hungarian DUSK or the Czech MASTER\u2019S HAMMER - broaching, hoarse, shamanic voice. There are also quite bold acoustic fragments that are not typical of extreme metal. In general, the release is not the most exciting, but in today's Blitz, I most strongly recommend it, since it, unlike the others, is really able to offer something new (or not that hackneyed).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 589px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=26625133\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=e32c14\/package=854925117\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siculicidium.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-hal-l-s-az-ir-nyt\">A hal\u00e1l \u00e9s az ir\u00e1nyt\u0171 by Siculicidium<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38-\u0439 \u0432\u044b\u043f\u0443\u0441\u043a \u043a\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u043e\u0431\u0437\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432. 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