‘Evighet/Undergång’ is a re-release of Nasheim’s two previous demos of similar name. Nasheim, whom hail from Sweden, are another excellent contender in the atmospheric black metal genre.
Their music is commonly fast to mid-paced black metal with raw sounding guitars, acoustic passages and both grim and clean vocals sung in Swedish. While the guitars do indeed have the typical black metal raw tone to them they remain very melodic with an interesting distortion that sort of creates melodies all by themselves, while the bass guitar has a pulsating pitch to it that just adds to the mood. The acoustic guitars are generally layered over the chaos similar to what Immortal and Ulver were doing in their early days, whilst at other times the acoustics do appear by themselves. The drumming is also well done with lots of speedy double bass, and LOUD drum rolls. Then there are the vocals, which are quite simply spectacular. Very harsh and agonized screams that rank up there among the genre’s best singers. The definite highlights are ‘Allt Svartnar’ & ‘Undergång.’ These songs in particular seem to achieve the highest amount of atmosphere, epicness, sorrow and rage. Also the cover of Bathory’s ‘Blood, Fire, Death’ is also stunning; in fact I like it even better than the original.
With an average song length of eight minutes and collectively forty four minutes between these five songs, Evighet/Undergång is definitely worth hunting down. Unfortunately Nasheim has been a little slow in recent years; besides two compilation appearances the only other released material has been a lengthy twenty five minute song that was paired up with a few from Angantyr for a split in 2007. Hopefully a full-length is on the horizon...
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