Grimmige Volksmusik

What a fucking cool EP! Absurd’s playing some old folk songs in good melodic black metal style!
They do it very well. The production is powerful and clean so that you can hear what the musicians playing (in early days it just was a big wall of noise).
And Wolf has improved his vocals. He sounds like a mixture between Kevin Russel (from the German Hard Rock band “Böhse Onkelz) and a typical black metal voice.


1. Ein Jäger aus Walhall:
Already the first song here is kickin’ your ass! The guitars playing folk melodys in a very fast way and it’s awesome. The “Juja Juja” refrain is the best thing here. It’s done by the harsh and hoarse vocals of Wolf, backgrounded by a clean singing choire and fast doublebasses. The last 30 seconds of this song are just fast blasting, but melodic black metal. Great!


2. Hab mein Pestkarren vollgeladen
3. Hoch auf dem Panzerwagen
4. Aufruf des Schinderhannes:
These three songs are less folk influenced than the opener. They are more in a melodic black metal style. Nice guitar melodys, harsh vocals and fast doublebass. Not bad, but not exciting, too.


5. Des Wotans schwarzer Haufen
This is an old German folk song (orig. “Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer Haufen”). Absurd has kept the old melody. But instead of using boring folk instruments they play the same old melody with their guitars. And doublebasses. And harsh vocals. Thousand times better than lousy folk versions and a great sing along song.