Asgaard – Exorientelux
The vocals of Przemyslaw Olbryt range from effeminate falsetto to a harsher black metal screech while touching on all points of delivery in-between. His voice is painfully annoying as he tends to try for that “crazy”/all over the place presentation that sounds forced. Oddly enough, this style seems to emulate the varying degrees of flamboyant goth synthiness that is the driving force of “Exorientelux”. Someone kill me now. The thin toned and crunchy metal aspect of their sound is buried beneath the synth overkill and is in tune with all the rest of the goth metal trend bands clotting up European airwaves. In a cloud of clove smoke and frilly greek sailors shirts, I would be a happier man if this style would quietly go away. With the silly vocal style, I can’t imagine that people into this genre would even be into Asgaard, even if their music does on occasion execute passable moments of melody and bite. Mixing metal with goth is like getting punched in the shoulder by a 13 year old girl… well it is anyway in Asgaard’s case. Weak! – Marty
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