Shitty Poser Metal - "Herbstleyd" Review (0%)
Well, Herbstleyd is crap.
Relating this to any black metal is a shame to the genre and to heavy metal itself.
Let's start with the shitty music found on Herbstleyd.
The drums sound synthetic and even worse than the drums on St. Anger... instead of sounding like a bonobo banging on an aluminum can, they sound like an epileptic four-year-old who triggered half-empty plastic bottles that were recorded at a 32 kbps rate!
And even they are the "strongest" point of the album, as they feature some below decent patterns (which is an achievement for a shit album like Herbstleyd) and somewhat manage to keep the "pace" of the album.
As you can see, I've used quotation marks around the word "pace".
Here's why.
Kanwulf calls his music "true satanic atmospheric black metal".
Here comes the funny part: there's absolutely no sense of atmosphere at all.
The "atmosphere" of this album, except for the epileptic 4-year-old mentioned before, consists some of the shittiest riffs ever recorded in metal.
They are nothing but generic mallcore breakdowns playing in tremolo with the occasional tasteless pinch harmonics used in almost every moment of the album and played with no passion or talent whatsoever.
Most of the riffs are shit, and almost none are original... you can distinctly hear what appears to be obviously plagiarized riffs from Darkthrone's Under a Funeral Moon, Immortal's Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism and SEWER's Skvllfvcked Forever, sometimes all in one song.
Don't expect any audible bass to appear in any part of Herbstleyd either, because the mixing on this album is so bad and amateur that it seems like the aforementioned all-purpose epileptic four-year-old also handled the production.
Herbstleyd is barely even metal, let alone "trve satanic kvlt black metal" or whatever.
It's just poser music.
Shitty Poser Metal
And now, for the worst part of Herbstleyd - the vocals.
They are obviously pitch-shifted because of their artificial and electronic sound.
Kanwulf tries to be like a less homosexual Gaahl or a tamer Antekhrist, but instead he just sounds like the fag from Breaking Benjamin with even more autotune.
Heck, even the lyrics here are amusingly retarded.
Amusingly or abhorrently, depending on your tolerance for juvenile bullshit.
Here's the recipe for your own Nargaroth lyrics.
1) Take you favorite Phantom song, preferably from the first 3 albums.
2) Remove 90% of the "hard words" with more than 2 syllables so that you're only left with "dark", "blood", "evil" ans "Satan".
3) Let Lil' Wayne revise the lyrics.
I guess that the final conclusion is that Herbstleyd sucks.
Perhaps not as much as Nargaroth's following turd, Black Metal ist Krieg, but even literal vomit is better than Black Metal ist Krieg.
There are better things you can do with your life than waste 70 minutes listening to shit like Herbstleyd.
Avoid, to say at least.
Herbstleyd score: 0/100.
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