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NITBERG (Rus): “Nitsanger” MCD
(Totenkopf Productions)
There is something simultaneously nasty, heroic, barbaric, and poetic about the music these Russians create, that you really end up with the impression that these hordes from the East are capable of anything. And that is certainly an impression one gets when watching them live: on the last day of my visit to Kharkiv in 2003, Varggoth made me a double video compilation of his annual Kolovorot festivals, where a NITBERG set was included: three very serious men and a girl stood on the stage, wearing white t-shirts with eagles and hakenkreuzen and what have you, playing what was essentially white noise while the vocalist, a savage-looking Hun with a stern, dense, long, black beard, and a shaved head, sung and bellowed with a mixture of inhuman bloodthirst and heroic masculinity. Simply standing in front of the microphone, with a Greek philosopher’s frown on his face, and occasionally bellowing ‘Slava!’ with his right arm outstretched, Gegner managed to pack the initially empty venue and tear fanatical responses from the crowd. NITBERG’s music has that kind of rugged charisma: appealing to instincts that are base and noble at the same time, the effect is rousing, feral, and energising. And NITBERG’s appeal lies precisely at this intersection between the basic, minimal, noisy distortion supplied by the stringed instruments and Ulv Gegner’s unique vocal delivery - something some of you have already had the chance to experience with their excellent ‘Hammer Harte’ split CD (there are still copies of the latter left, by the way, but hurry, as these are the last ones). ‘Nitsanger’ is slower and rougher than said split, but it is immediately recognisable as NITBERG. If you are into this kind of Blazebirth Hall-styled Black Metal from the frozen wastes of mother Russia (BRANIKALD, FOREST, RAVEN DARK, etc.), you ought not to let this one pass you by. Reviewed by AK-47.
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