Iskalde Morket
The Great Dying
5 Track EP
Released June 2013
Superb new E.P out now!
Iskalde Morket -
Norfolk
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iskalde-Morket
Genre: Disease
ridden Black Metal
Biography:
Iskalde Morket is a solo black metal project!
Formed around 2010 by John Rogers. He started it when he was attending College
as a way of removing frustration and not being able to find like-minded
musicians but if he had he may not have come up with anything as inspirational
as this and also it makes it a lot easier to make decisions i.e. no alpha males
or ego’s to contend with as is what can happen in bands from time to time and
maybe a lot of the time
Iskalde Morket is Norwegian for Freezing
Darkness! John felt it portrayed what he was trying to get across to people and
‘borrowed’ it from Throne of Katarsis album called 'det iskalde morket'
As Fork Tongues Salivate
You can almost
see the substance dripping from the evil tongue as this track evilly invokes
its dark shadow of unbridled energy upon its victim. The dark forces are in
full swing and the added keyboard sounds go a long way to giving you that sick
feeling in your gut as being the most eeriest and quite terrifying in its own
right.
Great Dying
This is so
atmospheric you can imagine it to be playing busily in the background to a
menacing horror movie as it really invades the senses and produces some strange
and tempered imagery. It gives off a cold vibe despite its fast paced rhythms
and blood curdling vocals that savagely mutilate the aural.
Illuminaire
A crisper
sounding track this is once again engrossing and intoxicating with its twisting
rhythms. It darts about in a pumped up frenzy of riffs and creates an electric
brutality, again with incidental keyboards that seem to manifest themselves
into the head of the unsuspecting listener as its build-up envelopes you in an
attempt to possess the darkest of souls in an un-pure madness of dark rhythms.
The Grief of the Deteriorated
On the very
first note this track embeds evil. It holds some superb chunky riffs that are
cataclysmic and will rip your head off in an instant. The vocals literally
feast upon the soul and that mad keyboard serves only to plunge you deeper
under its dark spell of intensity.
Rape of the Natural World
A clever use of
a sampled voice wanting to clean up the world although the atmospheric and
benign forces that surround it clearly give out the message that, that is not
what is going to happen. It is frenzy time again and that evil satanic vocal
gargles pure unadulterated hate towards its listeners. The stark reality is
driven with assault and battery to the aural with no let up. The track goes out
of its way to make you feel threatened and uncomfortable as the sounds envelop
you with no escape.
To Sum up:
Having reviewed
Iskalde Morket previously I knew I
was in for another tempestuous listen and not wrong either. John Rogers has
again produced a fruitful array of striking bleakness that once again is a
ravaging experience. Dark, black, ominous and foreboding, conjuring up a storm
of malevolence with spiteful rhythms and ravenous riffs done to some pretty
evil vocal grizzles and growls it holds plenty of compelling moments and really
toxic on all accounts. John likes to unleash the beast with a violent and
formidable breath and this is nothing less than a frenzied melting pot of
energy, brewing up some dramatic and rousing effects.
It is quirky
and not JUST your average black metal this is indeed infested
with the black-death and simply intimidates on all levels. It unveils a natural
evil that exudes from every pore of its gnarly sinews with renewed intensity
but despite this there is a melodic structure that presents itself and gives the
listener something to grasp within their futile succumbing to the power that is
Iskalde Morket its gravitational
pull will bring you towards it like a magnet to metal.
10/10
Track List:
As Fork Tongues
Great Dying
Illuminaire
The Grief of the Deteriorated
Rape of the Natural World
Members:
John Rogers - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Programing, Keys and
Ambiance
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