Not sure Bosnia is a hotbed of Black Metal but as war-torn as that region has been over the years, it would make sense that wrathful emotions might manifest in music. "S&P" does find them blasting into a place so aggressively that it almost feels more like death metal. The sonic nuance of the guitars keeps this raw reckless thrashing rooted in black metal. This is only a three-song EP, so while I appreciate the energy expressed in this raw outburst of violent darkness, I am going to need to hear them touch upon a wider range of sonic colors in the other two songs to be convinced they are not a one-trick pony. The guitar solo that surfaces on this song feels like Slayer jamming in the 80s. The vocals have more purpose at some times than others. They basically just give this chaos a voice.
With a three-song EP, every moment matters. Yes, there are four tracks but the first is just an intro. In the second song, you can hear the more Eastern European influence in chord progressions as some carry a wild gypsy madness to them. In 2025 some idiots think all regions of the world create black metal with equal ability, but white people can't understand rap music, these guys create something unique to the region they are from as it brings the energy of their lives to this music creating a more original whirlwind of chaos than the previous song gave us. This is something these guys should and hopefully will continue to build off of.
On the last song, it's moments of clean guitar that sell me more than the more metallic thrashing sound, though the guitar did improve on this one since the first song. I appreciate the dynamic loud-to-soft contrast they work off of here. There is a dissonance that haunts the chords giving them more personality which is what all black metal should search for where they stand out as their own unique individual sound rather than being so quick to conform to what black metal "should " sound like. It does build into a more menacing countenance of sound. I will give this a 9, for embracing a more original sense of who they are and allowing their region to flow through them. This album drops this week on Signal Rex.
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