HEIDEN „Obsidian”

Music: Doom Black Metal
Website: www.heidenhorde.com
Duration: 40:09 minutes (8 tracks)
Country: Czech Republic

HEIDEN comes from the label Naga Productions and therefore we should expect that “Obsidian” will give us the black metal sounds. This is in a reality. Though this is a pretty specific Black Metal, because it smells of old school a bit as well as of the BURZUM's style. However HEIDEN decided to dress the lyrical layer in the Czech language – and it sounds a bit oddly. Maybe therefore, that for us – Poles – the Czech language seems funny. And it in a connection with the black metal vocals, the recitations to music as well as with serious and dark climate becomes somewhat astonishing. Though who knows – What do foreigners feel when they listen of the Polish bands, with the Polish lyrics?

From the musical side – HEIDEN presents itself pretty correctly and without larger surprises. In majority the arrangements reside in dark and the ill-boding climate, with a small note of nostalgia. The works are kept by slow and average paces, though the quicker hits do not lack here. However from the second side these guitar riffs sometimes sound very dynamically and are created by the eighth notes as well as the sixteenth notes. But however the average paces of the drums still slow down the whole. Moreover the arrangements are enriched by the guitar solos or the clean passages, and it sometimes provides melancholy or a psychedelic tone.

In total the whole is full of an aggression but and of a hypnotism. Who knows – Is it a homage for HELLHAMMER and BURZUM?

note: 7.5/10

Tracklist

1. Nostalgia Echo
2. Catharsis
3. Triad
4. At a Funeral
5. Thujone
6. Post Lux Tenebras
7. Monomania
8. Buried 100 Years Ago

Line-up

Kverd: Vocals & Guitar
Tom: Guitars
Dalias Qelhma: Bass & Recitations
Einsk: Drums