Mystruin "Gånget Äro Ljuset" vinyl LP

Recorded in the year 2010. Mastered in the year 2013. 180g heavy black vinyl limited to 500 copies with 12-page booklet.

First album from 2014 by this swedish black metal band.

Mystruin are a Stockholm band who released demos in 2007 and 2013 leading up to their debut album released by Lamech earlier the year — Gånget äro ljuset. The song I heard on Soundcloud is “Förkastelse av ljuset”.

Where the first two tracks in this post could perhaps best be characterized as blackened death metal, Myruin unleashes pure black metal savagery. The riffs sound like a buzzsaw revving in the red zone, or a swarm of titanic hornets. The drumming is furious — and technically very impressive. The vocals are frighteningly venomous. But the music isn’t a non-stop storm. Before the song ends, it drops down into a few doom-drenched dirges.

The music has a very heavy low end, which enhances the apocalyptic quality of the melody. Ravaging stuff, and very well-executed.

…Ordered by the darkest might
Swept from this place
Into my uneven mind
Adversed by the incessant dystopia
that clings to the world…

Bizarre Aesthetics and musical blackness.

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