Hladomrak
Arctic Hysteria
More Hate Productions
Hladomrak is a Swedish/Russian trio. Arctic Hysteria is a black metal album in the vein of Immortal, Tyrant Wrath, Abbath. It must be written that not once, the music ideas for guitars in this album are incredibly crafty. Blazing sounds that come out of snow storming guitar shreds (Illusion Of Inocence, Omnicide) are those songs that are also based on complex arrangements, more expanded in tracks like The Beast, Spirit of the Forest .Hladomrak is also often transforming music into Northern in nature, grim, black metal groove. Archaic is a slower, melodic track but I have to write again that craft abilities in this band are their best feature.There are more traditional songs with fast, cold and blizzard spreading riffs in tracks like Frost, Despite, Arctic Hysteria with fiendish sounding vocals that fulfill black metal destruction of this Scandinavian sounding black metal album. This is undoubtedly an extreme recording with raw production but lot of flourishing songs that shift from one idea to another majestically and the music just freezes the blood in your veins under the weight of creativity.
It`s most definitely the album destined for a long time playing, so you can slowly discover its dark secrets by playing the songs at night – best at fullmoon. Black metal is without a magic when play it at day time but I think Arctic Hysteria does well even then because this uncompromising album takes you to alternative places, away from the struggles of the fallen world and its stupid problems. Certainly, Arctic Hysteria is the album stronghold that brings excellently executed black metal songs as a relief to your misery.
If mixes of the songs were two bits better, my excitement toward Arctic Hysteria would be even bigger. The music potential in this bands is huge and Hladomrak deserves just much better studio production (just like Immortal) for their Northern black metal crafts which you can already hear on this album.
It`s most definitely the album destined for a long time playing, so you can slowly discover its dark secrets by playing the songs at night – best at fullmoon. Black metal is without a magic when play it at day time but I think Arctic Hysteria does well even then because this uncompromising album takes you to alternative places, away from the struggles of the fallen world and its stupid problems. Certainly, Arctic Hysteria is the album stronghold that brings excellently executed black metal songs as a relief to your misery.
If mixes of the songs were two bits better, my excitement toward Arctic Hysteria would be even bigger. The music potential in this bands is huge and Hladomrak deserves just much better studio production (just like Immortal) for their Northern black metal crafts which you can already hear on this album.
Tracklist:
1. The Beast
2. Spirit of the Forest
3. Firetale
4. Despite
5. Arctic Hysteria
6. Archaic
7. Between Ice and Fire
8. Illusion of Innocence
9. Frost
10. Omnicide
11. Memento Mori
1. The Beast
2. Spirit of the Forest
3. Firetale
4. Despite
5. Arctic Hysteria
6. Archaic
7. Between Ice and Fire
8. Illusion of Innocence
9. Frost
10. Omnicide
11. Memento Mori
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 19.09.2019
Added: 19.09.2019