Haissem
Kuhaghan Tyyn
Satanath Records
Haissem is a black metal band from Ukraine. Opening track of the album entitled Black Tide Dominion is already a premise that black metal created by Haissem will be perhaps a full of surprises. First minutes of the song go with a harsh rhythm section, at the same time, the music is enlighten by melodic and doom metal guitar leads which carry sensations such as sorrow. Andrey Tollock (all music) owns dark shrieking vocals, something that can be compared to Shagrath of Dimmu Borgir. There is a very good, atmospheric fragment with clean vocals, which easily could fit somewhere on Opeth album, as well done, piece of avant-garde rock music that involves some beautiful sound of cello.
Arcanum takes me into more progressive black metal that musically is both grim and melodic. Excellent chants, catchy, storming guitar work, sound of harp and drums beats with good timing would long songs of Haissemme lasts forever for me. Music of this band is a black metal with a great flow of emotions and occult elements.
From time to time Haissem injects music with atmospheric keyboards and orchestrations that surround darker and heavier guitar riffs of the band (Aokigahara). When I has started to think that this track will follow more straight forward black metal approach, suddenly clean vocals and some guitar dissonance started to shine upon majesty of this band`s music. Last minutes in song are little more bombastic, harsh and fast too... It`s just something about this album that I think it has not (or very little) a bad musical moments, which is even more amazing if you mind that it`s one man-band (plus 3 guest musicians featuring on this record).
Кuhаҕан Тыын is surely groovy and atmospheric track with some fast and merciless black metal guitars also. In between it all, there is even some 70`s hard rock feel to keyboard sound here, which is great.
I do not think that those female vocals was necessary to feature them in this track, it took sharpness off the song into fragile musical areas, like in many lame doom metal albums in the 90`s I`ve heard... But anyway, the longer I listen to this album, the more I am convinced that Kuhaghan Tyyn is the light and darkness as one, the black metal record that counts for me pretty much this year.
Arcanum takes me into more progressive black metal that musically is both grim and melodic. Excellent chants, catchy, storming guitar work, sound of harp and drums beats with good timing would long songs of Haissemme lasts forever for me. Music of this band is a black metal with a great flow of emotions and occult elements.
From time to time Haissem injects music with atmospheric keyboards and orchestrations that surround darker and heavier guitar riffs of the band (Aokigahara). When I has started to think that this track will follow more straight forward black metal approach, suddenly clean vocals and some guitar dissonance started to shine upon majesty of this band`s music. Last minutes in song are little more bombastic, harsh and fast too... It`s just something about this album that I think it has not (or very little) a bad musical moments, which is even more amazing if you mind that it`s one man-band (plus 3 guest musicians featuring on this record).
Кuhаҕан Тыын is surely groovy and atmospheric track with some fast and merciless black metal guitars also. In between it all, there is even some 70`s hard rock feel to keyboard sound here, which is great.
I do not think that those female vocals was necessary to feature them in this track, it took sharpness off the song into fragile musical areas, like in many lame doom metal albums in the 90`s I`ve heard... But anyway, the longer I listen to this album, the more I am convinced that Kuhaghan Tyyn is the light and darkness as one, the black metal record that counts for me pretty much this year.
Tracklist:
1 Black Tide Dominion
2 Arcanum
3 Aokigahara
4 Кuhаҕан Тыын
1 Black Tide Dominion
2 Arcanum
3 Aokigahara
4 Кuhаҕан Тыын
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 30.12.2020
Added: 30.12.2020
