Grade: 6/10
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Grohm - The negation of silence CD
Genre: Black metal
Origin: Austria
Released: 2006
Website: Grohm
Label: Ashen Productions
Uploaded: 30.04.08

Looking through the booklet, and with beautiful piano playing as intro, I got the feeling that this was gonna be a symphonic black metal album, in the vein of later Dimmu Borgir material. But boy was I wrong, as what sets off afterwards is a raw form of black metal.
The blasting begins with F�r uns, die ihr des todes seid, and I�m excited as it builds up an aura and expectation of a mindblow to come. Unfortunately that never happens. The production is too thin to really make an impact, and the guitars are just there, without presenting anything special whatsoever. There�s no extravagant riffing to speak of, basically just �cause you can�t hear any. And the vocals are too gnarly for my taste, and the clean spoken vocals that occasionally takes place is just excruciatingly painful to listen to. And when the guitar leads try to take place it just sounds weak, like an annoying mosquito that keeps buzzing in your ear. Towards the end of Der sturm there�s a passage with an acoustic guitar that sounds like taken from some spaghetti western flick. It�s pretty unconventional, and a definite plus.
The keyboard makes it all fall somewhere in between old school and melodic, but failing to really present something exciting. There�s nothing that makes me wanna go back to this album on a later occasion, and it�ll probably be forgotten among tons of much better and more exciting bands. And phrases like �I am the human fucker� does not sound evil, it sounds laughable.

Tracklist:
01. Dusk (at the beginning)
02. F�r uns, die ihr des todes seid
03. Zeichen (in dunkler nacht)
04. Der sturm
05. Human destroyer (at the end)
06. Necrofaust