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- Band:
Sigorspéd - Duration: 00:37:45
- Available from: 11/07/2025
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Iron Bonehead Prod.
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In the writer's opinion, a certain 'trveness' And various misanthropic and mysterious attitudes are absolutely part of the Black Metal wheelchair, and we adore it, but when there is only the 'folkloristic' aspect, let's say, and the musical proposal is less, it becomes frankly ridiculous.
The Americans Sigorspéd present themselves as part of the self -styled Order of the Broken Sword, together with bands (always of Iron Bonehead) such as Luring, Azathoth's Dream, Wuldorgast – does notunic, therefore, that the components mix between the various groups.
The Sigorspéd, we said, are part of this evil assembly, and I am here debut after a demo always released this year. As can be understood, the black proposed by the group is primitive and without compromise, complete with fake recording and cold production errors and deliberately left 'primordial' (it makes a little strange which, however, some songs seem mixed differently, almost as recorded in different periods and put together, but could also have been simply added by some demo never published). The band puts on the plate a raw and rotten sound the right, capable of making the listener drop in a gloomy and primordial atmosphere, made of sharp riffs, incessant blast-beat and that claustrophobic tension that should be the beating heart of each disc of this type.
Unfortunately, however, despite the commitment and loyalty to the cause, the result does not fully convince: there are moments in which the proposal is made on passages a little too simple and conventional, when not quite embarrassing, such as the trivial arpeggio that opens “First Assault”: it almost seems to remember an intro of some songs by the Iron Maiden post-2010, with those arpeggios-Steve Harris forgive us! – Not exactly striking that sometimes the band uses with too much lightness, thus making the disc most as a postponement of being evil and arrogant than as a really inspired job.
There would be nothing wrong with the band's modus operandi, and the chaotic approach of this type of Black would be very well, if however a construction of the songs capable of re -eating and not unrealistic or strongly stuck in the clichés of others who came before them was not lacking: in certain situations, in fact, the band seems more committed to emulating Norwegian models of the 90s rather than building its own identity.
Having said that, “Everlasting Wisdom of the Ancients” does not lack some good guitar intuition and moments in which songwriting instead manages to emerge with inviting flashes, such as “Venomous Betrayal of the Sacred Dominion” or in the most melodic “Malefic Light Cast Upon the Coled Serpent”. Also noteworthy is “The Ties Which Bind an Eternal Brotherhood”, a song that detaches itself a little from the rest of the disc for a more atmospheric and melancholy touch, but with a calling all too evident and not always succeeded – to the approach of the ulvers of “Nattens Madrigal”, but that all in all he manages to make himself heard.
In short, the Sigorspéds have the dedication and a solid idea of what they want to do, but they still have to work to overcome that feeling of déjà-vu and be able to bring out a more defined personality. At the moment, “Everlasting Wisdom of the Ancient” is a barely dignified, raw, certainly sincere, but also a little school and immature debut especially in terms of writing, which allows you to glimpse potential to date remained unexpressed.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
