The Afrikakorps

This EP follows the same format of the Evthenasia LP before it: one side is really punk rock and the other sounds like Gorgoroth worship. Except here it's flipped and the punk rock is on side A instead of side B.

The weakness of the drumming shows here. It's not that fast or exciting and doesn't sound well-rehearsed or confident - it feels like he can barely keep up.

Vocals are weird for this band. Metalheads will say things like "rabid" or "deranged" for intense screams but this actually sounds like a crazy person rambling and ranting, like a lunatic trying to do a thrash shout. He goes rapidly from highs to lows and doesn't line up with the beat of the music just kind of rants on top of it. After getting more used to it I don't hate it but it's still pretty weird.

Production on the cleaner side of black metal. Riffs are clear, drumming is clear, bass is there, there's only the smallest bit of fuzz.

The opening cover of "Mourning Soul" is a mixed bag - the guitars sound great and the riff really shines with a full band setup instead of Absurd using electronics in jail. However it's painfully obvious the singer is using autotune and it's robotic sounding. It's embarrassing.

Side B which is just one longer song is typical black metal with mid tempo tremolo picking, which like the Evthenasia LP reminds me of "Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam." It has that kind of atmosphere. Lyrics here are in Swedish instead of English, and the vocalist is even more hyper and all over the place when he's doing Swedish.

This EP is short at only 10 minutes and kind of a novelty. A few listens were OK, enough that I could write a review, but it's not interesting enough to come back to. "Black-Punk with weird vocals" might attract someone, but I'm moving to the next one on the pile.