Kältetod

Going through my computer of late I've found a lot of music that I forgot I had; stuff long ago downloaded out of curiousity and promplty forgotten. Some of it's been great (I must buy that Winter album sometime) but most of it has me rather perplexed and going "What the hell was I thinking?" The wonders of high speed downloading, right? There's no way I- or I'm sure many others- would have as much crap music if it wasn't for it.

Just like the large amount of random Mp3 obscuro on my hard drive, Sieghetnar's a product of the internet generation. "Kaltetod" is in no way inspired, let alone good, and the amount of effort that was put into this suggests it was written and recorded by a 15 year old. Were it not for myspace this album would have never found any way of getting out there; without the advent of super cheap recording this wouldn't exist. I like the internet a fair bit, but it has spawned some monstrosities.

Paying attention to this album is pretty hard, so describing what this sounds like is somewhat difficult. Think of some rather terrible space ambient, I dunno, Biosphere minus the inspiration and good-ness, and then add a tiny, *really* small pinch of distorted, fuzzy guitar (I liked Filosofem but that record has a lot to answer for) and horrible drum programming. I'll admit this doesn't sound like a truly horrible mix of stuff; I like space ambient and I like Filosofem, and even a bunch of Burzum worship bands. Really, it's hard to articulate just how much less this is then the sum of its' parts.

Is it the repetition? The sheer pointlessness of having guitars in this? The long, completely subpar space ambient bits? The lack of direction in the songs? I guess it's a combination of all that; perhaps it's not as hard to articulate as I thought. Long and pointless; to be honest I'm not even sure why I wasted time reviewing the damn thing.