Reverorum Ib Malacht - Likpredikan - review
Reverorum Ib Malacht - Likpredikan - review
Tracklist
01. Den Swenska Gudstjensten02. Path To Yirah
A review by
Lucas August 09, 2010
A year later, the same group of people, also known as Reverorum Ib Malacht, released another demo. Likpredikan was the name of the sophomore curse and, in all honesty, it blows donkey balls. Well, alright, it doesn't literally blow donkey balls, but it is massively, highly, incredibly disappointing. It is also a change of style.
You see, where What Do You Think... was mostly an indescribable mix of genres and, with a bit of imagination, a metal demo, Likpredikan is nothing of the sort. RiB chose to follow the path of dark ambient and offers deeply resonating, pulsing bass drum rhythms and alien noises. "Den Swenska Gudstjensten" consists pretty much entirely of these two aspects for it's full length (a whopping 47:13 minutes by the way). Its aim is abundantly clear, but the song never manages to capture, hypnotize or mesmerize. It flows along nicely and on a few occasion, it picks up in intensity, but it rarely becomes more than 'just background music'.
"Path To Yirah" relies more on the alien noises instead of the pulsing bass, but is still basically the continuation of "Den Sweska Gudstjensten". Metallic noises, gloomy synths, hollow echoes and distant church bells, it's all there. Well, all... what I miss in this demo, and what was so readily available on What Do You Think..., is the horrific atmosphere. And without it, Likpredikan is nothing but a futile endeavour and a complete and utter failure when it comes to scaring the listener. It's nothing but easy-going background ambient.
If you want to dive into the adventure that is Reverorum Ib Malacht, take the utmost care to start with What Do You Think.... Likpredikan is, most likely, not of interest for the average black/doom/noise metaller, due to a severe lack of extreme music. There may be a whole league of hardcore ambient listeners out there that disagree with me, but that's hardly my problem, is it?
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I still wanna check it out, just because I want all their stuff in my computer XP
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Posts: 13427 Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.08.2010 at 15:15 I can hook you up if you want, catch me on MSN sometime. It's hard to get a real copy of this release, I haven't been able to find it yet. I do own their third demo 'Demo 09', I might review it soon. Also Ambient though, unfortunately.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what?  "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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An 80 minute ambient release compromised of two songs, I sure like the sounds of that.
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Posts: 18615 Written by Lucas on 09.08.2010 at 18:17 Well, if that demo is bad ambient, it sure as hell is a shame, have you heard it? Unfortunately my computer have some problems so I just use my mom's at the moment, but when my computer is fine then send me the stuff! 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Posts: 13427 Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.08.2010 at 19:45 A couple of times but that was long ago. I remember it was better than this one but not much.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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I'll take your word for it that it's garbage (for listeners on the prowl for non-ambient works, anyway). I don't think I've disagreed with many of your lower ratings.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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