{"id":20814,"date":"2014-06-14T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=20814"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:16:44","slug":"ep-review-gnosis-of-the-witch-dauor-buror-prysvar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-gnosis-of-the-witch-dauor-buror-prysvar\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOSIS OF THE WITCH – Dau\u00f0r Bur\u00f0r \u00derysvar EP (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GNOSIS OF THE WITCH
Dau\u00f0r Bur\u00f0r \u00derysvar EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nIron Bonehead (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Four-track mini-album Dau\u00f0r Bur\u00f0r \u00derysvar<\/em> is the second EP the strangely named United States duo Gnosis Of The Witch has released in 2014, following on from R\u00fan Af Inn Au\u00f0r<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Ni\u00f0afj\u00f6ll is quite literally responsible for everything except the percussion, which is handed by Swartadau\u00feaz. The first side of this opus features \u2018Ek Bj\u00f3\u00f0a Inn\u2019 and \u2018Ormar Eitr\u2019; both are very intriguing episodes indeed, the former being a mere atmospheric rumble of no fixed abode or real instrumentation or vocal as such, but more of a distant soundtrack. <\/p>\n

\u2018Ormar Eitr\u2019 begins as an eerie trickle which is interrupted by a crushing serenade of stark, doom-laden guitar and brooding atmosphere before once again being invaded by a more classic black metal rush of hate. Vocally, it\u2019s the usual throaty, phlegm-coated scratch and sniff horror, but this is laced with some nice melody in the riff and a crushing percussive stance. This is black metal with plenty of meat on its bones, and yet apocalyptic and hateful throughout. Mostly fast and cavernous, the track rages in mocking fashion as if Ni\u00f0afj\u00f6ll is some cruel sorcerer of hell conjuring all manner of indescribable demons amidst that panic-stricken flurry of icy guitars and racy percussion. <\/p>\n

The next two tracks are \u2018Svartr \u00dalfar Bl\u00f3\u00f0\u2019 and \u2018Dau\u00f0i\u00feursar Sei\u00f0r\u2019, the first of these being a straightforward spiteful avalanche of hyper drums and deviously hellish guitars which run faster than Satan\u2019s own thunder-horse of doom. Again, the vocals are horrendous; Ni\u00f0afj\u00f6ll has a remote quality about his warbles, which for the most part act as another instrument to concoct this vile cacophony, but like all good, talented black metal bands, these guys don\u2019t merely rely on that hostility. <\/p>\n

When the pace is slowed the band evokes images of peculiar terrain, almost as if we see the world through the eyes of some soaring demon cast from its flaming pit. The drums become a beckoning pod, and the guitar sound is one that enables the listener to latch on. Of course, the duo cannot help but put us through the barbed-wire maze as the track leads into its final frenzy, but again they resort to imagination for the final track \u2013 the six or so minute gurgle that is \u2018Dau\u00f0i\u00feursar Sei\u00f0r\u2019 \u2013 a truly blackened wail of dementia that exists on varying doomier melodies and those ever-present vocal coughs. <\/p>\n

There is certainly something deeply disturbing about this opus; although the hidden power is not something you can put your scorched finger upon, Gnosis Of The Witch somehow have the appeal of a rickety, creepy cabin buried deep within the heart of an ancient woodland. In fact, it\u2019s hard not to fall under the spell of this rather mystical manifestation.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GNOSIS OF THE WITCHDau\u00f0r Bur\u00f0r \u00derysvar EP Iron Bonehead (2014)Rating: 7\/10 Four-track mini-album Dau\u00f0r Bur\u00f0r \u00derysvar is the second EP the strangely named United States duo Gnosis Of The Witch has released in 2014, following on from R\u00fan Af Inn Au\u00f0r. Vocalist Ni\u00f0afj\u00f6ll is quite literally responsible for everything except the percussion, which is handed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-gnosis-of-the-witch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20817,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814\/revisions\/20817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}