Ildjarn ‎"Nocturnal Visions" CD Digisleeve

Unlike the latest era of Ildjarn, this is pure Black Metal, and not keyboard-only.
Some of the songs are edited-versions of older songs.

CD comes in cardboard sleeve limited 2000 copies
Music and lyrics 1991-1995.
Nocturnal Visions I-III recorded and mixed January-February 1992.
Other selections recorded and mixed 1993-1995.
All tracks recorded and mixed in nocturnal solitude at Fittehelvete.

‘Nocturnal Visions’ starts off with an industrial ambient track, harsh, scary and foreboding but extremely unmusical. The second track starts with a buzzy, understated, childishly simple guitar riffs over a nihilistic drum rhythm, throbbing, monotone bass high in the mix for black metal standards. The vocals are barely audible and hard to describe but are somewhere between a croak and a low-pitched rasp. You’d think that after more than ten years in the business, mister Vaaer would have learned a few new riffs and drum rhythms, but no, as a traditionalist and a primitivist he does not seem to strive toward any form of progression. This doesn’t sound like something you would like or ? And yet… somehow the sound does get to you. It’s extremely noisy, extremely monotonous and extremely crude but it generates a certain mood. There is something commanding in its primitiveness.

Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...