Moribund

Koldbrann serves you a good dish of dark and angry black metal.
With guitars sounding like wasps on a raid for flesh, a vocal that spits out filth and doom and a beat that keeps it steady and fast, true to black metal.

I must confess, I don’t normally listen to black metal, but I’ve listen to some before…and I admit I was blown away. I haven’t heard Koldbranns
previous release so I didn’t know what to expect. It sounds great.
           
Moribund contains 11 songs with aggressive black metal that makes your skin crawl.
Most of the songs are in Norwegian and two in English. I think by using their mother tongue, they keep it raw. The sound is nice and meaty and it doesn’t sound like they’re playing in a basement. You get the feeling Koldbrann have really worked with the sound and you can hear every instrument. Songs like “Alt er befengt”, “djevelens treskeverk” and “Full spekter dominans” kicks you when you’re down.
A Great black metal album worthy to be in any collection.
 

www.koldbrann.net

By: Warius

Atomvinter

This is something I’ve been waiting for.
Have to say that I was surprised when I hear the first song “Atomvinter”, first thing that hits me it’s the improvement of the sound if we compare to “Nekrotisk Inkvisition”, an album that got good reviews from “Black Metal” fans.

The first track start with something interesting and the song get my attention, the song evolves into the atmosphere I seek when I listen to “Black Metal” Have to say that the vocal sounds much better than on “Nekrotisk Inkvisition”.
It seems like “Koldbrann” has evolved and has found their “thing”.
“Sions fall” is the name on the second and last song on this Ep. This is something I really like. Here you find Black Metal full of hatred and it’s not taking long before I banging like satan to the song. (He He.) Sounds like they have found inspiration from “Shining” and “Darkthrone”. So what? “Mannevond’s” vocal is something that suits the music on this Ep, and give both the songs energy and identity, Black metal fans that don’t like “koldbrann” for that is for me a big question. “Koldbrann”  has always been a good band to see live (after 5-6 beers hehe), that is to my ears a little better than I heard on a record earlier.
This is something I recommend if you’re fan of primitive Black Metal.

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Nekrotisk inkvisisjon

This is the third time Koldbrann's debut album is released. Perhaps it'll stay in print this time.

Now, the music. The album, Nekrotisk inkvisisjon, is black metal. Period. No more, no less.

My first impression is that the sound is great. It's just as “nekro” and shitty as a black metal album should be.

The music, however, is… well; Koldbrann ain't exactly what you'd call inventive. They play their black metal like they used to, back in the heyday of Norwegian Black metal. Perhaps a bit too much like that, seeing that most of the riffs on the album is “borrowed” from early Darkthrone releases, making Koldbrann something of a Black metal version of Backstreet Girls (who relentlessly steal from old Ac/Dc).

There are a couple of highlights though, like the midtempo song ”Fra Allfars Veg” which has a good drive to it, making it interesting to listen to. And also the album's penultimate track, “Phlegetons Bredder”, which sometimes sounds as early Burzum. The good thing about this track is Mannevond's vocals, which sound genuinely tormented.

Let's hope that Koldbrann shows a bit more inventiveness in the riff compartment on their next album.

www.koldbrann.net

By Marius H. Huseby

Koldbrann - Nekrotisk Inkvisition:

This is an album I wish I didn't have to review. Bluntly speaking, this sounds like “crap” in my ears. They definitely have their followers and I'm sure they have cool make-up, the most wicked clothes, and the toughest nails, but this is totally void of emotion! I don't get scared, it doesn't give me the creeps, it doesn't make me angry… The only feeling I get from this is one of resignation. If one absolutely feels the need to listen to something from this genre, the better choice is definitely Dark Throne, because this just sounds like a regurgitated version of Dark Throne with a cleaner sound than one experienced in the early ‘90s. It's not that it appealed to me then either, but back then this music at least had its mission as a rebellion to the conservative part of Norway . These guys can play, no doubt about it, it just doesn't sound good. Boring and repetitive themes, marching band snaredrum and wasp guitars for those who favour that sort of thing..

I'd rather torment myself for 3 hours with Britney's first album than listen to this for a second longer. At least she is able to make me feel sick if that's what I'm after. I bet she'd even manage to make me vicious within that timeframe, but Koldbrann…… yawn… nightie-night.

By Kenneth Brastad