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Primitive Reaction
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New test for the band of Roman Saenko, mastermind of the Ukrainian Drudkh, who returns to the scene with a new EP of four songs for twenty-eight minutes of angry and blood-dripping black metal, and this will certainly please lovers of the black flame .
The proposed black is stinging, biting, brings to mind dark excursions into the most morbid meanders of the soul, but also in this release manages to be the result of a careful composition and fine workmanship. Even in the face of the growling blind fury that assails the listener, the typical melancholy that we find in the disenchanted metal of Drudkh is evident (who actually play on this EP, with the exception of the vocals, here by Winterherr of Paysage D' Hiver and Meilenwald of Ruins of Beverast, who equally divide the four tracks), as well as the sound construction that is always sensible and, although free to express itself, never left to get lost in its own misanthropy without direction.
In fact, if the two shortest songs, the opener “Verbrannte Brücken” and “Drangsal” (five minutes each) represent the most brutal moments of the EP, we find a more eclectic writing for the remaining songs, seven and eleven minutes long. However, beyond the main characteristics of the individual songs, the compositions are all as pugnacious and violent as they are atmospheric, precisely as a function (and consequence) of a tangible and painful expressive ardour.
Less usual are perhaps the titles and lyrics in German, but this makes everything even more austere in some way, further thickening the almost half hour of music on offer, which culminates in the aforementioned eleven minutes of “Jedes Todes Lohn”, the most 'Drudkh' piece of the lot, with its lilting, vibrant and hypnotic start.
In these four songs we experience a decidedly intense drama, made of traditional Eastern European black metal, which does not transcend a dormant sadness vented by rancorous screams and ferocious accelerations, but which makes even the most breath-taking moments shine with an opaque light, capable of insinuating themselves in the listener's veins. In short, the state of health of this group, shown by this EP released by Primitive Reaction (after the previous works had been released on Season Of Mist), is of very high value, and will serve as an excellent snack for fans of Saenko, waiting for something with more substantial playing time.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM