ANDEIS - Servants of the Cold Night
Fallen Empire Records
The first time I played this release was at five am on a Sunday morning. Ah yeah I do have weird hours but for some reason it worked. Oh yeah it was a cool night to say the least. So what we have here is a piece of work that's been going on for a few years now and has finally been put to a conclusion. The members of ANDEIS, a three piece black metal act from parts unknown, but I have a guess from where, started out in 2015. According to the band info the songs were written over the period of 1999 to 2016. It was finally recorded in 2016 and finally released now.
As far as the music goes this is a twenty five minute journey into the creepy and raw atmosphere of symphonic black metal. The keyboard work on here is important but not overwhelming. Basically it serves a purpose put forth by multi-instrumentalist Laignech who performs on bass (what bass?), keyboards and vocals which by the way are of the harsh screeching variety.
At times it reminds me of a soundtrack to an Italian Horror film from the 1960's meets DARKTHRONE for dinner at the HAWKWIND compound. Part of the time during the ambient keyboard only parts I was waiting for the credits to roll by. Hmmm, slightly under twenty years to write an EP's worth of material? And this sounds like Norway 1992 at best but really it's in a basement of Seattle 2019. Then again I could be wrong.
http://www.fallenempirerecords.com/
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https://andeis.bandcamp.com/album/servants-of-the-cold-night
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