Review: “Arv” – Asmegin

So i get some iTunes gift cards for christmas, right, and i’m buying a bunch of CDs. I got some 3 Inches Of Blood and some Opeth and other stuff like that. And then I remember “Hin Verdende Sod & So is good, maybe I should get that”. Needless to say, I did. So I look up Asmegin in the iTunes store, and i see another CD titled “Arv”. This little gem flew under the radar of the metal community, even for Asmegin fans such as myself. I figured it must be a demo or something like that that nobody really cared too much about. Fuck no, it came out 2008. So I bought that pretty much immediatly. But was it worth the 8$?

 

Fuck yeah it was.

The Good:
Well, for starters, it’s fucking Asmegin. That’s pretty much enough said for me. I like the vocals on this CD a lot. Maybe more than on the first CD. In my review on “Hin Verdende…” I complained about the female vocalist. However, on this CD I can’t say anything is wrong with her voice. It’s a lot cleaner and it sounds better. In fact, there is a song called “Prukende, Stolt I Jokumsol” that is only the female singer, and I want it played at my wedding.
The production quality sounds a bit better.
They seem to use variation in vocals a lot more, and the death metal singer has a much wider range.

The Bad:
Well, i wouldn’t really say there are any “bads”. Just minor complaints. The original CD featured a lot of fast, heavy and brutal instrument passages. This one, however, the instruments calmed down a bit. There are still brutal passages, but not quite as often or as brutal.

The Final Verdict:
[5 of 5 whatever the fuck Gengangeren means].

Song Recommendations:
 Prukende, Stolt I Jokumsol
Arv
Gangangeren 

  

~ by darkorchestra on January 2, 2009.