forgotten woods - race of cain
i like raw black metal, quite a bit actually. this sounds like somebody lazily demo-ing some half-finished tunes on a 4-track in their living room, with one mic. it sounds pretty remarkably amateurish--i guess they're too kvlt to be bothered with things like, i dunno, playing in time and, uh, mixing. there are some cool riffs sprinkled in there but like i said, all the songs seem like extremely rough first-draft sort of song ideas. i don't just mean in terms of production, i mean it really seems like they wrote and recorded the whole thing in the span of half an hour. the levels actually change from track to track. really, this merits worldwide distribution? i actually found it sort of amusing so i'm not too pissed about the $5 i spent on it (thank you amoeba) but if they set out to create a parody of bedroom black metal, mission accomplished. i actually found myself wondering if they were serious.