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BLODULV  II  CD   (Knightmare Recordings)   11.98


Re-issued in a sleek digipack case with an eight-page booklet designed by Blake Judd from Nachtmystium, II is presented as a stateside redux of the

original 2004 album that came out on Sweden's Total Holocaust Records. The second full length from Swedish satanic fuzzmongers Blodulv (which translates to

the terminally badass moniker "Blood Wolf"), II is a ferocious blast of frozen, distorted black buzz, taking cues from Darkthrone and Burzum but

then blowing their black metal out into a mostly mid-tempo march of awesome epic riffs and triumphant blackened melodies, but all blanketed in tons of

distortion. The guitars are so distorted that it sounds like the riffs are coming out of blown speakers, all buzzing and hissy but crushing, and the ultra

distortion carries over the the vocals, which appear as a blown-out, distorted white-noise rasp that makes Blodulv's primitive, feral black metal sound even

more frozen and hateful. This album is killer, completely bathed in ripped distortion and snarling satanic singsong, and it manages to be both

amazingly catchy and darkly melodic as well as noisy and hypnotic as hell as the simple riffs and double-bass drumming churns over and over, striding on a

droning slab of buzzing black filth through a icy nocturnal wasteland.