After an almost unmanageable flood of demos the Norwegian Vintlechkeit Story: “„We“ are turning into the Щугор project.“ – that now with I present in Atmospheric Black Metal, unfortunately sometimes too standardized.
Even if status of the project Windiness was already hanging in the balance (and secretly closed it last year too winter cold had been transformed), the caesura now feels unexpected – although the actual surprises are in the current Russian playground Chugor – for the next to V. Koren as Art Officer (whereby he for I like what feels like 200% of all other scene releases in general and Windiness-affine releases in particular an obligatory black and white winter landscape adorns the cover) alone Mastermind WV (guitars, vocals) is responsible – but then keep it within manageable limits.
The MO of Chugor finally already defines the opening Mirrors of frozen eyes: a dark, oppressive and also oppressive drone shows the entry into a world that breaks out as harsh black metal in a lo-fi storm. The drums work two forests further with mechanical precision, the guitars scrub in the dirty tremolo like a dense snow flurry, the screaming is like a hysterical banshee. An atmospheric Ambient part allows you to take a deep breath as a contemplation before the Black Metal rears up more contemplatively, lurking, more hymnically and dramatically, and then ends forgivingly on a downright warm, soft benevolence.
This basically measures the radius and scope. Because even if it’s atmospherically great and moody, it’s also quite interchangeable; decline the aesthetic clichés of the genre in a formulaic and competent manner, but hardly allow any individual identification features to emerge, practically no riffs or melodies flourish that would stand out on their own, apart from the charisma and melange.
This works as an intoxicating undertow – but if you know one track (of the band, which is not particularly original or individualistic), you know them all.
The amplitudes and facets shift afterwards nevertheless still vaguely in the ambivalence of I. winter ruins courtes a bit more grandeur in the ambient, a bit more progressive groove rhythm in the drum patterns (of course still taking place quietly in the furthest corner of the noisy mix), and the songwriting gets a latently more dynamic mutating variability – if not bandwidth. The same applies to Among the dead stars (also a few Twin Peaks-Synthies), but above all it feels like it lasts forever and even longer.
Basically it works best Lonelinessin which Atmospheric Black Metal moves far away: Here dabs Chugor Intuitions of a minimalist melody in the drone finally give more space to the purely ethereal pace and daydreams and not just the standardized framework. Would like more of that.
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