Unlight

Five years after the debut album "Empire of Vampire" (not counting the release of the split album "Indonesian Swedish Brotherhood"), Nosferatu has finally come back with a new single entitled "Unlight" (sounds grim, eh? You'll see.)

Of all Indonesian Gothic black metal songs I've heard, "Unlight" actually has a good potential of composition and songwriting. The symphony here sounds very decent, while combining the orchestral symphony of Dimmu Borgir and slowness of Barathrum. But the instrumentation is (sadly) overrun by the symphony itself (that I can even only hear the drumming). The singing isn't much a thing, as it is just your standard BM shrieked vocals, but I catch a little bit darkness in it. The production quality is good and bad at the same time. It's good because it makes the song really feel like a song from Barathrum, dark and grim, but it's also bad because the vocals at some times (for example in the early part of the song) sound too noisy. The lyrics are well.... your standard Gothic vampiric fiction, they should have had more idea for picking any other themes. Maybe the only things I like are just the symphony and the "dark" atmosphere (which isn't thick enough).

Well, the single may be not that good, but I hope their next album could sound way more grim than this single. Go on Nosferatu, you can do more than this!