My e-mail inbox, since the advent of bands such as DEAFHEAVEN (though the band isn’t bad by any means), has been pelted with way too many meloncholy progressive black metal bands. I mean, when your aim is soley to be a carbon copy of a band – I don’t honestly even see the point in pooling all your money and time into some shoddy rip-off, really. Jan F. Lindsø’s VYRJU, just so you know, has no affiliation with with that comment. I bring up the project because, to be frank, even with a few flaws – VYRJU doesn’t try to be something it isn’t; doesn’t try to copy.
Now, the project has just a few flaws, something I enjoy about music like this – it isn’t over-processed. At times the progression is very typical for the blackened approach to metal. Later tracks glide into a typical trebly, screechy, and minor scale sort of direction – attempting to provide a wall of distortion to carry the intensity of the vocal styles. This is somewhat a shame because the opening track ‘The Constant Void’ really has a good hook/groove/rhythm/melody thing going on.
Though not exactly new in style or progression, maybe even a tad obvious in direction at times, Jan Lindsø manages to pull you in by the end of his 4 track EP ‘Black’. Here is hoping to hear more from him with VYRJU.
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