Nafsasy - Syaitann

The first and so far only release of the Malaysian band Ablasa is a rather short track, which has been released on CD in an edition of 16 copies. Well, better than spreading it as MP3, some may say, but it is nevertheless strange to see so little music spread this way these days. Well, it is just a CDr with two small sheets of Xeroxed paper that would fit into a jewelcase and nothing more.

What about the music, then? With not much to write on this is a rather difficult task actually. It is a form of raw and unpolished black metal, whose sole outstanding characteristic might be the vocals – but I can see people raise their eye-browse over this. Contrary to the overall style of this genre, Sakar, the sole person behind this band, rather whispers and speaks, while screams and such are avoided like plague. It should not surprise then, that the music receives a strange and rather bewildering touch. While the music is something like punkish black metal – and reminds on the recent outputs of Dark Throne in some respect – the voice is rather ‘inspired’ by the depressive sub-branch of this genre. The music is raw, has a dirty touch, but it is hard to feel thoroughly fascinated by it, because the way everything merges together does give the impression of creating a sound and coherent picture; especially the ‘spoken’ part is really strange.

Note:
Carnage Music (http://www.myspace.com/carnagemusic666) has a release announced already. Therefore, more music might see the light of day soon.

Based on a review originally written for ‘A dead spot of light (Number 14)’:
http://www.archive.org/details/ADeadSpotOfLight...Number14