Enevelde – Pandemonium

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• Band:
  Aenevelde
• Duration: 00:38:47
• Available since: 08/04/2025
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After the return of the Misotheist and the debut of the Krabøl last year, it is now the turn of Aenevelde (Norwegian term for 'autocracy'), another project by Bage Kråbøl who returns after an EP and an album always for TerraTur possessions, Norwegian label whose catalog almost exclusively includes bands of the Trondheim area.
As predictable, also in this case we are faced with a black metal that staggers between the classical and modern school, with quite frequent raids in Death-do territories and an atmosphere of oppression that refers to the work of the Misotheist, even without reaching the dissonant and obsessive peaks of the latter.
“Pandemonium”, despite the hot colors of the splendid cover, wears a glacial sound and not very inclined to comfortable atmospheres, preferring sharp guitars and a deliberately monotonous rhythmic trend, made up of few changes and almost all played on double cash rugs and never too high speeds.
The riffs build dissonant impalcatures without falling into exasperated avant-garde, remaining, indeed, within the borders of the classic Norwegian school: in this sense, the track that gives the title to the disc is one of the best examples, with its final part made of blast-beat and uncomfortable guitar turns and at the limits of minimalism.
There are several moments when the Enevelde take the briga to bring up the sacred monsters of Norwegian black metal: for example, “Offer” pays the mid -career Gorgoroth, while “Helvete Reiser Seg” is a sort of conjunction ring between old and new school, in the wake of what the Satyricon did with “extravaganza rebel”.
“Nigromantia” and “Eksilfyrste” with their slow and creeping incede, are the songs that most approach the Black Metal sound of Trondheim, with an esoteric and morbid atmosphere that resolve everything with a – perhaps too much – short final explosion.
The feeling, compared to the previous work, is that of a more marked research towards the lightening of the structures which, despite a basic monotony, are always on fire and functional to the creation of a genuinely evil mood and with very few spirals of light.
Even without boasting a great originality, “Pandemonium” still settles in a solid way between that group of disturbing records whose ultimate goal is to create discomfort.
Not indispensable, sometimes too monolithic, but fascinating in many of its parts.

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