Kerker - Ban All Lights (2016, Nihilistische KlangKunst)
After a
couple of years as an unpaid music reviewer, no the bosses at LMDM don’t
provide any pay but they let us walk without our chains ten minutes per day,
you get a flair for the new to little known bands just at gazing the artwork or
a first full listen. Two options are in your face for almost nine times out of
ten : the record sounds a lot like the current trends or it is an emulate
of a Golden era of the said genre. In the case of the Germans of Kerker and their LP Ban All Lights this is the second
option.
Their
influences, starting with the DarkThrone
drumming and riffing to the Abbath/Immortal
like vocals of the Pure Holocaust
period are screaming the Second Wave of Black Metal especially coming out of
Norway. Sometimes it is a good thing other it is not to emulate Gorgoroth like Taake did is not an easy task to do since the genre has been
saturated by countless bands.
Kerker’s interpretation of the Second Wave
of BM is far from being a failure or bad. This is actually good and well done
in its ensemble.
So to say
that Ban All Lights is a tryout at a
worn out genre would be an euphemism. Don’t get me wrong because I cherish the
same bands as they do and keep their work in high respect. However, if I want
to hear A Blaze In The Northern Sky
or Under The Sign Of Hell I’ll spin
the original not a copy-paste. Trying to recreate what has been captured over
two decades ago with an urgency that is not palpable anymore won’t have the
same impact nor the same energy.
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