DARKSPACE — Dark Space I (review)

DARKSPACE — Dark Space I album cover Album · 2003 · Atmospheric Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
The first Darkspace album is an ambient metal piece which essentially operates on two levels - on one level, you have the conventional metal instrumentation churning out a rumbling wall of guitar noise, and on the other level (usually in parallel with the other one) you have curious ambient effects overlaid with bizarre, alien screams and atmospheric samples (often from 2001: A Space Odyssey). The overall effect is something like the sort of ambient black metal approached by Burzum - but without the sort of incoherent rage and barely-restrained hatred that characterises Burzum's work, replacing it with a sense of cool, spacey detachment and dissociation. I wouldn't call it a classic, but it's a very interesting experimental black metal piece which certainly makes me want to hear the rest of this band's work.
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Wilytank wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I can hardly wait.
Warthur wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Given that as far as I can tell none of the top black metal albums have more than 20 ratings yet, I think we're a long way off from the top albums list being even mildly representative. ;)
Wilytank wrote:
more than 2 years ago
And with this, a long standing veteran of the BM top twelve list just fell off the BM top twelve list. Well, I said I was tired of the list being virtually controlled by me, except now we got another Nokturnal Mortum album up there.

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