Monday, May 31, 2010

Ruins and Decline

Zaklon is mysterious one-man Black Metal band from Belarus. This self-released 2006 CDR titled Zrujnavanaja Velich (Ruined Greatness in the Belarussian language) is a cold and repetitive piece of Slavic pagan misanthropy. The rather obvious drum machine hammers out rolling mid-tempo throbs under melancholic distant guitars. Listening to Zrujnavanaja Velich is not unlike trudging through snow for the most part, occasionally there are moments of greatness as the title suggests, but it could have been so much greater had Zaklon's sole member, Temnarod, had a drum kit. Still way kvlt and well worth your time.

2 comments:

Rondo said...

Ah, that's what basement-BM should sound like; thanks a lot!

rickets said...

thanks for this...