VARGNATT

My terrible cassette, the original demo no less, is not particular appealing. I found it by accident some days ago and fired up a cassette player I have not used for fifteen years. Those memories......... Cassette tapes. My childhood.

The demo feels like it was recorded through the arse of a reindeer. But all demos at that time had that sound. I have heard worse sound than this one. Much worse........ and those demo tapes sells for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. This tape would probably fetch the same amount of money too. That's an idea...

The vocals are not the Garm as we all know. I believe this is his first recording ever and it shows. Not good. The sound makes it difficult to get anything out of the music. Despite of the hype this tape is surrounded by, I cannot find anything of any value here. Just some black metal intercepted by some accoustic pieces which does not make any sense at all. In 2009 and the year following 2009, it is a worthless album. But in it's day, it was an important demo tape.

1.5 stars