![]() ![]() Besides the drums, Carl Michael does all the clean vocals. In addition, whenever the songs require his blast beating abilities, he delivers in the most prominent way. Although the overall tempo of the album is “slow”, he sounds adequately neurotic, with his hands and the feet moving fast and tight, producing disjointed rhythms. His voice sounds as if it’s being processed through machines.Ĭarl Michael Eide weaves magnificent beats with his drum kit, that create a ritual backbone for all the songs. His harsh vocals are “freezing moon” nihilistic, not being however typical for black metal in general. ![]() That happens mostly when the rhythms per song are hypnotically slow and less when they are damn blast beating. Except from creating in each occasion the most fitting ensemble of notes per riff, he manages to keep them in a constant turmoil by changing them when least expected. Vicotnik’s work on the guitars is amazingly eerie, transmitting the notion that something evil is about to approach any moment soon. After all, VBE are a trio and hence they axiomatically file under the well-established apt performance that characterizes most rock n’ roll trios. The band’s performance is as tight as it can get. The same applies for the voices, regardless of whether they are clean, harsh or female. The drums, the bass and the electric guitars merely interact the one with the other, so as to create a fragile substrate per song upon which, all instruments will carve their own separate way. This stimulae is related to a broad spectrum of rhythms, most of which are calm and mesmerizing, yet all of them are dissonant and still within the maniacal pattern repeating philosophy that black metal demands by default. In terms of the music itself, the ways of expression generically used in black metal are left aside, while the musical instruments are stimulated in the same “random” way Pollock gave birth to his abstract patterns. A thin layer of amplifier fuzz is used to cloak the music, making the latter seem as if it is being “diluted” or “vaporized” when it is brought in contact with the former. Just like Pollock did with his “dripping” technique, that is “hiding” his abstract patterns under one or multiple layers of “dirt”, Ved Buens Ende act likewise. In Written In Waters, Ved Buens Ende forge their unique black metal, in the same way Jackson Pollock crafted his paintings. ![]() His “dripping technique” paintings were hailed as monumental works of art with respect to the so-called Abstract Expressionism movement, while Pollock himself was considered as one of its most important representatives. That is, he begun to create stacks of multiple layers of “random” patterns onto a blank canvas, just by tossing paint of various colors and tones onto it. Being “just another” painter during the first 10-15 years of his career, he discovered accidentally his infamous “dripping” painting technique. Review Summary: Ved Buens Ende forge their unique black metal, in the same way Jackson Pollock, the famous Abstract Expressionist painter, crafted his paintings.Įvery time I listen to Ved Buens Ende’s sole album Written In Waters, my mind directs me subconsciously to the work of that famous American painter, Jackson Pollock. ![]()
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