Ov Hell
The Underworld Regime
4/5
Listen To: Post Modern Sadist
Skip It: Acts Of Sin
Ov Hell’s debut album The Underworld Regime showcases a brand of Norwegian black-metal with perfect balance, equally allotting time for low to mid-tempo melodic chord progressions, as well as head-shaking drum triplets and blast-beats supporting ferocious riff attacks.
Album opener “Devil’s Harlot” tackles you with its underlying speed, and simultaneously mesmerizes through melodic arpeggios and anthemic chants. The Underworld Regime then flows seamlessly into “Post Modern Sadist,” a mid-tempo yet electric display of guitarists Teloch and Ice Dale's riffing talents. Laden with a foundation of double-bass punches that don’t lapse into blast-beats, the song prefaces varying degrees of tempo-drops on the rest of the album. The oddly encouraging Satan-cries of Murder, murder, murder… Slaughter, slaughter, slaughter leave a lasting impression.
Then the strobe-light blast-beat effect of “Invoker” proves that Ov Hell is authorised to send you spiraling at any moment. The song’s jitter-arm speed-riffs whittle out a racing, technical melody, a technique reappearing in “Perpetual Night“ and album closer “Hill Norge.”
“Ghosting“ idles with beaty double-bass jabs under a continuous waterfall of melodic chord structuring for a mid-album tempo reducer that does not bore, and creates a tactful void for following momentum to fill.
The Underworld Regime also showcases telltale Norwegian black-metal techniques. The intros to “Post Modern Sadist“ and “Krigsatte Faner,” for example, employ eerie whispers and torture chamber clinking as small breaks in volume that effectively contrast the instrumentation. And “Acts of Sin” and “Krigsatte Faner” are straight up blast-beat arenas of lightning-fast speed. “Hill Norge” climactically caps the disc by encompassing all the ups and downs of the well-rounded black-metal sound.
Track Listing:
1. Devil’s Harlot
2. Post Modern Sadist
3. Invoker
4. Perpetual Night
5. Ghosting
6. Acts Of Sin
7. Krigsatte Faner
8. Hill Norge
Published by Tangible Sounds
The Underworld Regime
4/5
Listen To: Post Modern Sadist
Skip It: Acts Of Sin
Ov Hell’s debut album The Underworld Regime showcases a brand of Norwegian black-metal with perfect balance, equally allotting time for low to mid-tempo melodic chord progressions, as well as head-shaking drum triplets and blast-beats supporting ferocious riff attacks.
Album opener “Devil’s Harlot” tackles you with its underlying speed, and simultaneously mesmerizes through melodic arpeggios and anthemic chants. The Underworld Regime then flows seamlessly into “Post Modern Sadist,” a mid-tempo yet electric display of guitarists Teloch and Ice Dale's riffing talents. Laden with a foundation of double-bass punches that don’t lapse into blast-beats, the song prefaces varying degrees of tempo-drops on the rest of the album. The oddly encouraging Satan-cries of Murder, murder, murder… Slaughter, slaughter, slaughter leave a lasting impression.
Then the strobe-light blast-beat effect of “Invoker” proves that Ov Hell is authorised to send you spiraling at any moment. The song’s jitter-arm speed-riffs whittle out a racing, technical melody, a technique reappearing in “Perpetual Night“ and album closer “Hill Norge.”
“Ghosting“ idles with beaty double-bass jabs under a continuous waterfall of melodic chord structuring for a mid-album tempo reducer that does not bore, and creates a tactful void for following momentum to fill.
The Underworld Regime also showcases telltale Norwegian black-metal techniques. The intros to “Post Modern Sadist“ and “Krigsatte Faner,” for example, employ eerie whispers and torture chamber clinking as small breaks in volume that effectively contrast the instrumentation. And “Acts of Sin” and “Krigsatte Faner” are straight up blast-beat arenas of lightning-fast speed. “Hill Norge” climactically caps the disc by encompassing all the ups and downs of the well-rounded black-metal sound.
Track Listing:
1. Devil’s Harlot
2. Post Modern Sadist
3. Invoker
4. Perpetual Night
5. Ghosting
6. Acts Of Sin
7. Krigsatte Faner
8. Hill Norge
Published by Tangible Sounds
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