Svarta nyanser av ljus

This is a good representation of very early Hypothermia. The production is very noteworthy in this release. It may sound incredibly poor,

almost dead you could say..but that is exactly what works for this release and most early Hypothermia releases. All the instruments sound deeply murky while the vocals seem isolated from it all, muttering and shouting in a dark corner of the room. This one track demo is a very primitive example of this style.

The pace of the music is always very slow and monotonous and without a doubt you have to be in the mood for this sort of music. If you don't focus on it you won't get the true feeling from it. The thing is though if you have listened to other Hypothermia from this era there are slightly better albums.

While the album doesn't have much variety at all aside from the bizarre intro and outro which I don't think I've heard Hypothermia use that kind of ambience in other songs before. I don't really quite understand its purpose in the grand scheme of the song. It could've easily done without it.

At least this innocuous demo is a proof of Hypothermia's consistency at creating something of at least some redeemable quality as they certainly had created their own sound at this point in time.

'Svarta Nyanser Av Lju' is a quite minimalist demo, in recording devices and musical abundance, but not in atmosphere, and that's the importance.

It begins with quiet sound samples, of winds, basses, shrieks...material which creating a silent mood. Then the guitars comes in with a slow riffing in a depressive tone, the drums are very slow also and emphasis the monotonous feeling, there aren't a lot of riffs also, they repeat themselves quite a lot but they doesn't becomes too much repetitive or boring. After six minutes there is a new riff which gives a new shade for this song and of course help it last for longer. The vox are as typical black metal shrieks, but these are the more depressive, and grimy, which of course more suitable for this demo.

It's a long track, 19 minutes, but repeat itself a lot and could be easily a five minutes song. However, the repetition helps this demo with the dark feeling and increases more grimness and coldness within. It worked for me only in extremely specific moods, but when it worked, it sounds like the second version of Burzum, which takes you slowly to cold, and dark places in your mind.