Nidsang - The Mark of Death
March 23 2008 at 08:32:09 PM

Ah, Sweden. This is what I expected Katharsis’ latest to sound like: less ambling, more cohesive—a tighter attack but with lapses into ominous sorts of ambience not unlike the wormhole sonics that soundtrack Lynch’s narrative fractals. A lot of this record just flat out rocks, sounding not unlike the brand of Black Metal typified by Nargaroth’s
Semper Fidelis. Of course there’s no dynamic shift—ala Nagaroth—and that’s what makes for difficult listening. Sample like the most “authentic” shine: in small fucking doses.
[Stewart Voegtlin]