In der Unermeßlichkeit des Schnees

The band Northern Forest comes from the state of Amazonas in the northern part of Brazil. And, you know, that is not so far from equator, and you can hardly find snow here. But you can find snow on the cover of "In der Unermeßlichkeit des Schnees" demo, and the band even describes its style on this demo as "winter ambient black metal". I doubt that the man living near equator can reproduce the atmosphere of cold winter, and, while listening to his music, it becomes clear that he was influenced by the works of Vinterriket (and even German song titles point to this) rather than direct experience of cold and snowy weather.

The demo starts with placid ambient with some odd nature samples that remind me the sounds of the ocean rather than winter landscapes, which they probably were meant to represent. I don't know where these samples are from, and if Kavera (the leader of Northern Forest) has recorded them himself, but they aren't successful in terms of reproducing atmosphere. The second track is the continuation of the first one, but after the first two minutes the drums appear at the background, accompanying the melancholic melody played by keyboards. Yet still no trace of "winter ambient black metal", only ambient… Finally, on the third track we can hear something close to black metal, with very poor quality of sound and with some extraneous sounds in vocals line, which means that Kavera definitely has to throw away his shitty microphone and buy something decent. This lasts only about a minute, after which an ambient part intrudes, and the last two minutes of the track feature black metal again, but this time slower, which doesn't make it better. And the closing track again meets us with melancholic ambient.

Well, I don't think that Kavera will ever be able to create the same atmosphere that can found in the works of Christoph Ziegler, but at least his ambient is listenable (which doesn't mean that it's good). Black metal part of this demo is completely meaningless, and I don't know why it was included here at all.