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After a long period of lack of interest in music, particularly metal, I find this CD for like eight bucks at my local CD store. I listened to a little bit of Gehenna a couple years ago and remembered thinking they were pretty good. After listening to this album beginning to end while walking around outside at night, I remember what black metal is.Gehenna's style of black metal is so in touch with its roots but still so fresh. It is undeniably evil sounding, and just flat out aggressive in some parts, but there is still that oddly soothing and mystical feel about it that I just love with black metal. I'll start with the vocals: HOLY SHIT.
Raw and violent are good words to describe it. But tame and restrained would work as well. The shrieks seem so effortless that you don't get that, 'I’m trying really hard to be METUHL' type vibe.
Plus there is so much control over the vocals, higher shrieks to lower growls, with a real nice ebb and flow to it. Definitely some of the best black metal vocals I’ve heard.The guitar work is as usual what is at the heart of the album. Plenty of tremolo picking and distortion, but certainly not excessive. There is a nice variety of fast and mid-paced (never really slow), and it never comes off as mindless shredding with the treble all the way up and thinking that you’re a visionary. The guitar work is as brilliant as it can get for a black metal album of this type, but its real strength is that it works with the other instruments and never 'hogs the stage' as it were.For instance, I can actually hear the bass on this album.
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I will remind you again that this is a black metal album. The bass is audible (can't get over that) and sounds great. It adds thickness to the music.
That seems like a good word. But unlike a lot of albums that just have the bass there, this one has it complementing the guitars very well.
I will say that though it is audible throughout the album, it never really deviates from complementing the guitar work. So it is still in its traditional role, but it's audible, and on a black metal album we don't really want to hear funky bass licks. Just a nice touch.The keyboards are the driving force for the mystical aspect of this album, and you can almost sense them pulling you out of a segment of more aggressive riffing. This album's keyboards are great not only because of the more atmospheric aspect of the chords as we usually see, but they are also thrown into some of the faster parts as well. The keyboard breaks in 'Shairak Kinnumh' are an awesome example.
I guarantee they'll get stuck in your head.The drums are typical black metal. Some blasts here and there with plenty of fast paced hammering away.
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There isn't anything real special to point out about them. Except that the production of them is very good, especially when compared to the usual wet cardboard effect of lower-fi black metal. In fact, the production overall is very good. It is low-fi and dark, but not to the point of being stupid.
Everything is mixed well with just the right amount of volume for each instrument.In conclusion, there is not really any in particular flaws with this album. This album is EXCELLENT black metal. I only really took two points of for not being my favourite album of all time. Shame that Gehenna doesn't get much attention. Thanks for rekindling my love for metal, Gehenna.EDIT.
On repeated listens this album does not grow anymore memorable, and particularly the second half does not excite me as much as when I first got it. There still are no real flaws to grasp onto, but it just is one of those albums that doesn't benefit from repeated listens. The atmosphere diminishes, but it is still well worth your time.For excellent craftsmanship and great black metal aggression with a lot of unique flavor that sadly does kind of grow old after a while, Seen Through the Veils of Darkness gets a 77, or a 4 out of 5. The Norwegian black metal scene was undoubtedly the biggest thing to ever happen in terms of black metal.
It created a whole slew of bands and more or less cemented black metal as a metal genre (seeing as before it there were only a handful of black metal bands). Now, when we all think of the Norwegian black metal scene we all think Mayhem, Emperor and of course Immortal, but here is a band that was going strong with them but unfortunately, didn’t get as much coverage.This album really is a great slab of symphonic black metal, almost rivaling Emperor’s In the Nightside Eclipse, in my opinion. It contains some amazingly grim and cold sounding synths and to be honest I believe this album is symphonicly stronger then anything Emperor have EVER put out.
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It contains all of this while also having a strong amount of melody and atmosphere to keep you absolutely entranced throughout the record. The guitar in Veils holds that ever so lovely black metal tone, the buzz-saw blade sound of the guitars from the tremolo chords and all; superb work in this department. The drumming is also absolutely godly, being highly diverse in the drum work as to not sound like a drum bot or generic black metal drummer, blast beating with the chaotic riffs, slow paced drumming for the more mellow moments and an impressive display of basic drumming for the more acute moments. Another thing I noticed on this record is that you can actually here the bass guitar! Albeit, it’s not anything unique and just follows the guitar lines, but still, it gives the album a fullness that some black metal bands fail to do because of their lack of bass. Finally, the vocals are nothing unique sounding, but Dolgar utilizes that rasped screech perfectly to garner that ambience of a tortured soul.
All together these form a melodic, grim framework for a great black metal album.The lyrics on this album revolve around evil, death and plagues with a song dedicated to dark poetry a le’ Edgar Allen Poe. The lyrics aren’t terribly great, but considering some of the stupid lyrics that extreme metal has come up with, they were fairly decent. The production on this isn’t very good, perfect for black metal.
It’s not bad enough that it’s incomprehensible like Darkthrone, but it’s bad enough to get that dark, cold black metal feel. The atmosphere of this record is a mixture of a little bit epic, very dark and cold as well as somewhat depressive, mostly attributed by the depressive synths. Veils is somewhat all over the place in terms of pace.
There are some songs which are your usual chaotic black metal, while there are also some slower paced parts. The choruses are generally fairly catchy and one will find themselves muttering “a Witch is born” or “Ee are back forever’ when the songs are playing.This album really is one of the better black metal albums I’ve ever heard and I would highly recommend it to anyone who just came off an Emperor or Limbonic Art binge or just to anyone trying to get into the black metal scene. Its mix of dark melody, tortured black metal aggression and encapsulating synths make this very well worth the listen.
3.9excellentRanking: #102 forRatings (64)Give your Rating4.0 excellent February 9th 12The second half of this album contains several songs that have sections that are essentially symphonic.