Unholy Black Metal
  • Gallery
  • Contact

Neoheresy (Poland): “Potop”

26/5/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Thinking about the good quality of new or relatively new bands coming from Eastern Europe these days, it’s not hard to open your ears when you know beforehand that your next review will be a Polish band, from a location called Ostrołęka. The band was previously known as Hellveto but changed name to Neoheresy around 2014. It consists of only one member that takes care of all instrumentation. I personally admire one-man-bands because the amount of work to create each and every piece of sound lies all on one pair of shoulders.

Neoheresy has a very defined sound. On the second full-length, Potop, as much as on Talionis, the approach doesn’t change much. The soul behind the music tries to grasp atmospheric moments charged with pagan mysteries. So, expect an album with a sound a bit far from the usual aggressive black metal and closer to an acoustic, bombastic, with chantings all over, that sing along with the distorted voice of the solitary warrior. Those who do not stand keyboards in metal step back, or maybe give this work a chance, because the keyboards are not so omnipresent that they could destroy the weight of the sound or whatever. They are, therefore, a great complement to the sound.

Take for example “Wśród bitewnych pól”, the keyboards are there, a little orchestration in the background, clean and growled vocals, the occasional clean guitar, the epic tone of the drumming parts and the melodies evoking battle fields. “Nadchodzi wojna, nadchodzi głód...” shows its symphonic side more than any other but the album has all these elements playing together in some interesting harmony.

To sum it all, this work is very good for fans of underground pagan black metal. I would point to some things in the final mix that, in my taste, won’t work so well. The sound is sometimes flat, and I would like the drums a bit louder in the mix. On the other hand, considering this a work of a young talented individual, such technical issues are not of the utmost importance. This is a very creative work and in future albums I would like to feel more of that melodic pagan side that sometimes doesn’t feel exploited to the maximum. The last song “Potop” can sum up the kind of nice atmosphere Neoheresy can show.

Notes:
Potop was released on March 1 2016 in CD digipack by Elegy Records (USA).

Tracklist:
1. Preludium
2. Dar
3. Wśród bitewnych pól
4. Dotyk albo miecz
5. Nadchodzi wojna, nadchodzi głód...
6. Czarny śnieg
7. Po kolana we krwi
8. Potop

Personnel:
F. – All instruments, vocals.

Text by Vetrarnótt

Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013

Unholy Black Metal zine