review: Superterrestrial

Superterrestrial

The Void That Exists

16 August 2019

The music is do-it-yourself black metal with driving guitars. The recording features a contemporary drum sound that could be drum programming or it could be sound replacement technology. The vocals are in the very traditional screechy style. The one element that adds a bit of a different side is the use of keyboards. It doesn’t seem to be used a whole lot in the songs and if it is, then it is not very audible, generally speaking. However, it is used sparsely in some slower segments of the songs, for some atmospheric moments. Overall, the songs should be interesting to die-hard fans of DIY black metal projects that usually are ignored by the metal press, big, medium or tiny. The songs have a good energy as black metal and the people behind this project show knowledge of what they are doing. This is not experimental music, and is easily recognizable as black metal.

One last point of attention for the devoted black metal fanatic to consider is the vocals. In addition to being very screechy, they are not very audible and are kept very low in the sound mix. At times they seem barely audible at all. Thus, there are two issues for the fans to weigh. The first is the style of the vocals and whether it is appealing or not. The second one is the low volume of the vocals and whether this is acceptable or not. greenflaw.bandcamp.com/album/the-void-that-exists