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Death metal is such a limitless genre. You can do whatever you'd like. It can be over the top technical or slow. Brutal or insane and it's all so good. When we made "Visions of Death" it just came out with a natural old school-ish vibe and that's great, but our newer material has a much more modern technical vibe. I love how death metal has evolved.
For me, death metal should be heavy as fuck, brutal (which doesn't necessarily mean "fast"), atmospheric and evil. If the "evil" thing is not there, you can't label yourself death metal, that's a fact. I'm so fucking close minded when it comes to metal music... I listen to the SAME hard rock, heavy, thrash, doom, death and black metal that I used to listen to 15 years ago.
This black metal act from Günzburg, Bavaria (Germany) released the "Autumnal Heavens" EP as a teaser to this full length debut. As on that EP Augrimmer bring a decidedly Scandinavian cold to their relentless black metal. Heavily inspired by Setherial and (early) Immortal "From the Lone Winters Cold" is a savage serving of cold black metal. Compared to the EP the Swedish melodies have been toned down while the acoustic folk parts remains present, although they have been pushed more to the background. Where their EP focused on re-creating a grim Viking atmosphere similar to Satyricon's landmark "The Shadowthrone" disc here they branch out into the more barbaric direction of the genre. Main composer and guitarist Nord excels in writing sharp and razor styled riffs while drummer Draug lays down the most dense drumming storms this side of Dark Funeral. The vocals are trollish and strangled but surprisingly well enunciated rasping. The production is pretty organic considering the base level recording most of these bands take pride in. Like the preceding EP the artwork is good but nothing really spectacular or special. Augrimmer have done a good job recreating the Scandinavian misanthropy and wintercold of the release of the mid '90s. Together with Nastrandir and Klabautamann, Augrimmer is one of Germany's finer additions to the genre.http://www.northern-silence.decomment itWouter 7
