This is a review of a split ep between France's Non Serviam and Norway's Gallkrist which will be released in February as a joint effort between Trepanation Recordings and Bad Moon Rising and we will start of the review with Non Serviam a solo project who returns with an experimental mixture of black, sludge, doom metal, grindcore, crust, darkwave and industrial.
His side of the split starts out with some clean playing and female vocals that also add in touches of darkwave. All of the drum beats are also programmed while the music also gets very experimental sounding at times along with the heavier riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody and black metal screams are also a very huge part of the songs.
The slower sections of the tracks also add in elements of doom and sludge metal along with some spoken word parts also being utilized briefly. Industrial and breakcore style beats can also be heard in some parts of the songs as well as the riffs also adding in a small amount of melody.
Both of his tracks are also very long and epic in length as well as some growls and spoken word parts also being utilized briefly and the songs also adds in some influences of crust and grindcore, when t he music speeds up a small amount of blast beats can also be heard.. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Vampirism and Church Burning themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Non Serviam and if you are a f an of experimental, black, sludge, doom metal, crust, grindcore, darkwave and industrial, you should check out his side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Church Burnings".
Next up is Gallkrist a solo artist that plays a mixture of experimental black metal and noise.
Her side of the split starts out with some avant garde style instruments and synths before adding in some noisy distortion before going into a heavier direction. Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the tremolo picking also gives her songs more of a raw feeling and all of the drum b eats are programmed.
The second track is very long and epic in length along with the slower sections of the songs also bringing in elements of sludge and doom metal as well as all 3 of her tracks also sounding very different from each other and her side of the split always sticks to a slower direction, distorted guitar leads can also be heard briefly. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover darkness and winter themes.
In my opinion Gallkrist are a very great sounding experimental and noisy mixture of black and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Black Cold Lake".
In conclusion I feel this is a very great sounding split and i would recommend it to all fans of experimental, black and doom metal. 8 out of 10.
https://non-serviam.bandcamp.com/album/non-serviam-gallkrist-split-ep
https://badmoonrising.bandcamp.com/album/non-serviam-gallkrist-split-ep
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