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Ildjarn - Utsyn, del 4 (mp3)
Ildjarn at Myspace
Attention! Now this is something really important. Forget Darkthrone or Burzum.If you want to get an idea about the genuine harsh garage black metal ,you have to know one-man-band of Ildjarn (real name Vidar Vaaer) from Norway. It seems that he has found a perfect formula and his repeating it in every possible combination. The songs are usually quite short, less than 3 minutes and there are about 20 tracks on each album. The structures are extremely simple, mostly that common verse-chorus type. Sometimes the songs are instrumental and sometimes there's only bass guitar and drums. And sometimes there are even identical riffs in different songs, just played in different tempos. But the riffs are always catchy and easy to get into. The recording quality is as awfully noisy as it can get. There is nothing fancy about it - no echoes or reverbs to make it more atmospheric. Usually the songs start by clicking the drum sticks together, as it is a tradition in hardcore punk, then the melodies are repeated just long enough to get the idea and in the end the song is cut in a random point. Ildjarn's records sound like collections of direct ideas, it seems that whenever he comes up with a new riff, he just pushes the button on his 4-track and makes a documentation.
The lyrics aren't religious, no "praise satan" stuff here. Maybe a little in the vein of new-age, about pagan nature worshipping, but it's all delivered in a very personal and intimate way. Ildjarn gets inspiration by walking in the wild nature. In interviews he has mentioned that he tryes to avoid other people as much as possible. So here we have a true autistic misanthrope. But he's a vegetarian and he loves animals.