the metal realms of Allmacht (Germany)

Allmacht (Germany): In namenlosen Tiefen
These black metallers Allmacht (based in Lübeck, in the state of Schleswig-Holstein) go for maximum coldness and grimness engulfed in a shroud of melancholic-midtempo bleakness that achieves a wonderful atmosphere of doom and gloom, but NOT in a funeral, super slow way; rather, in a uptempo and midtempo range, with slower moments.
As one can probably tell from the German-language title (“In Nameless Depths,” if this zine is not wrong), the lyrics-vocals are in German, and the music is meant to portray the frozen-land-of-ice black-metal atmosphere.
“Vergänglichkeit” (“Transitoriness”) (9:52) begins with acoustic guitars before moving into the midpaced, doomy, melancholic territories where the tremolo riff rules supreme. By the time the song hits the sixth-minute mark, one should be pretty long into this ride that is driven by simple but effective atmosphere. The vocals are very traditional black metal screaming, in the traditional painful and aggressive way. It ends with a melodic, slow section.
The title track (5:20) demonstrates a much more uptempo feel, even a dare-to-say-it big-riff rocking vibe: raw, noisy, but done so well with those grim-throat vocals and tremolo-rules sounds. Plus, there is a nice moment of lone-moon-wolf melancholic wail.
Another song, “Die Erhabenheit des Winters” (roughly: “The Sublimity of Winter”) is 6:13 of mid and uptempo headnodding raspy throat rawness, but pretty darn catchy, too. How you like those black metal apples, now?! The last song “Ausklang,” (“End”; “Close”) (3:38), an instrumental midpaced pagan-forest-blackmetal-tremolo spiral cloud brings this to its finality. Where is there more?
To sum up: in the violent forest or in the peaceful street, at school or at that job at the convenience store (whose name we will not say, but it adds up to 18), Allmacht will bring it. Pay them a visit.
www.myspace.com/allmacht218