Count Nosferatu
Das Schwarze Order
[independent]


Besides those wacky Polish bastards, the French scene can also be credited with keeping the spirit/sound of black metal alive and amongst themselves in fine fashion. Although most people (including myself) find it difficult to understand how those cheese eating, striped shirt wearing, wine abusing lunatics can have such an abundance of evil bands coming from their country, they most respectably cannot be questioned, as Count Nosferatu *nicely* prove on this demo. I knew I was in for a good time as soon as the intro for this particular (and fairly lengthy) release started out. Multiple screams (and I mean screams) filled my room, as what seemed like the entire band screeched into a microphone or two. Wow. Musically, the band belt out black metal in an excellent, almost nostalgic fashion. The music here is *very* evil sounding, yet not in the clean and boring fashion most bands credited with being "evil" sound like (such as Dark Funeral). Instead, CN concentrate on being *so* dirty, so raunchy, and so very morbid sounding. The music here isn't quite as unprofessional sounding as other French groups (especially black legion bands) such as Vlad Tepes or Antaeus, as a matter of fact there's a fair deal of melody and even a solo or two mixed in, but it stays somewhere around these audio barriers. The vocals work especially nicely though. High pitched *screeches* (higher than usual...but not screamed) combined with some lower pitched grunts (but not necessarily death sounding...more like the vocalist is vomiting) push themselves oh so violently to the front. Fast, evil, sick....this demo is nothing more than well-done and real sounding mess of black metal. Besides the 5 track demo (including an outro and intro) the band have also added two live shows onto the tape (I'm not sure if this comes with the actual demo though). These two shows are fucking great, and truly allow the band to shine...mainly because the crowd is really into the music (as proven via their screaming, chanting, and what seems like the burning of whatever club the show is taking place in). This demo is for fans of *black-metal* and should be avoided for lovers of those easy sounding Swedish and COF-ish sounds. If you do like your music evil, messy, and vehemently violent sounding, you'll revel this.

Count Nosferatu
c/o Baalberith
2, rue de Rothimard
63400, Chamaliéres
FRANCE


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