Daudur - Daudur - used 10inchLP Review

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2005-11-11 : Aryan Faerie
This band is a mystery to me. All of the research I have done to uncover the bio, history, anything on this group has been met with a hollow echo. Perverted Taste claims that this band has been arounf for 15 years? Impressive, and now they are releasing their first album?! The record merely notes that the album is a rerelease of a '99 promo. This is all I have been able to scour up on them. Thier existence is as murky as the cover art (yes! that is the cover in the picture! Have fun figuring out what it is a picture of!) As for the music, the guy from Taake claimed this band to be one of the very few band still playing in the "absolute true blackmetal style". Indeed their music is not like the unberable icy onslaught of Ulver (Nattens Madrigal) or Nokturnal Mortum, but instead sounds more oldschool and traditional. I havent listened to much older BM, but I do notice how the metal has a more earlier late 80's early 90's asthetic to it especially in the 2 and 3 songs. If keyboards do exist in this album, they are lost completely in the classic rough production. A few moments of etheral ambient pop up, but they are very short and are only used as accent. There are some memorable melodies on these songs. Keeping with oldschool metal, they often break form the constant blastbeats to play a bit of catchy, mid-tempo bars. All in all, Daudur do not probe any new ground. Their music is not vicious like some modern BM groups today, but nither is it weak and unaffective like late period Burzum or the pitiful Dimmu Borgir. However, for the true, rootsy honest blackmetaller, this little record is soulfood, recalling the memorable days of old and reveling in the true Norwegian history.