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Vondur - Love me tender (mp3)
Vondur at Myspace
Vondur may not be so special musically, but it's still a phenomenon. It's a side project of Swedish black metal terror duo Abruptum. It's some sort of black metal version of Weird Al Yankovic.

Even the insiders of the scene realize sometimes how ridiculous things get with being "kvlt" and "troo". So the case here is to go over-the -top grotesque. Album cover of Vondur's first LP was like a Star Wars movie poster - huge figure of Darth Vader and his lazer sword in the center. I chose a song from their following MCD "Galactic rock & roll empire". It's an interpretation of classic Elvis Presley hit. There are also cover versions of Judas Priest and Mötley Crüe on that record. Vondur wears yellow corpsepaint and in interviews they manifest nothing but total war and destruction of mankind. I think that people who find this funny, must have quite poor sense of humour. Anyway this is all on the very edge of bad taste. But the music is not so bad at all. It's fast, chaotic and aggrssive as hell. When listening to Abruptum, it seems that these guys are just too stoned to handle their instruments. But Vondur proves that they are actually very good musicians. It's much better than all those wannabe idiots who can't even copy properly the true black metal. There are also some parody bands, who are making just boring black metal, but try to be ironic by making those worn off penguin jokes in their lyrics. That's not the case here. I take Vondur as some higher form of nihilism, they don't have respect even for the genre they are supposed to represent. But antagonistically Vondur has the essence of black metal, because true BM is all about selfdestruction and nihilism, right?