Rehears'hell 2004

This demo was mashed up with Zarach ‘Baal’ Tharagh for the Raw Recording 2004 split that sucked the big ones. It’s the exact same version, so there really is no change other than the title. Therefore, I ask you to hold the criticism as I mention exactly what I said in that review, but limited to just Ond Aand.

Ond Aand is a pretty bad band, I must say. It doesn’t quite stoop down to ZBT bad, but it’s damn close. There is still a hint of a rhythm and a driving melody, be it a folk one or an industrial sounding one, but it exists. “Eternal Season Pt. 1” kind of sounds like a poor (and I mean a poor man’s Drudkh. The vocals are sounds like an asthmatic ghost trying to imitate early Burzum vocals from behind a pane of glass. In fact, it sounds more like a toddler crying, and this isn’t being satirical, it’s a fact. Both this and track two sound like Drudkh rip-offs, but the quality is like an unrehearsed demo. It really sounds like rehearsal material to put up on MySpace, which I’m sure it was the purpose. Both tracks have some sort of eminence to them, but the guitars are screechy, the bass is non-existent, and the drumming is sloppy (thus killing any value). Not much else can be said about the other track, but its more on-the-spot rehearsal than a Drudkh copy. Regardless, all of them are way longer than they should be and aside from leaving no lasting impression, they give me an incurable sense of boredom.

What makes this release all the more worthless is that Ond Aand broke up not too long after it was released. I don’t know if they were trying to make a statement or exercise their right to make music for the fuck of it, but they serve as just another shit-stain on the fabric of nature.