Nenavist- s/t cassette

I ordered this tape by Bulgarian black metallers Nenavist along with some others from the Cocainacopia distro awhile back.  Though I love Cocainacopia for being, by far, the most reliable metal mailorder I've ever dealt with, they aren't too big on descriptions of the music they are selling.  The description for this tape, for example, was simply: "debut album now available on cassette".  So, when I get ready to drop some cash on black metal, I usually have to spend a few hours researching and trying to figure out the specific meanings of ambiguous adjectives used to describe black metal over and over again such as raw, depressive, evil, bizarre, pagan, etc.  Though it can at times be a bit annoying, I kind of also dig the no description / brief description thing; it reminds me of ordering hardcore records by bands I'd never heard of as a teenager on the basis of descriptions that were just as ambiguous such as "fast as fuck thrash" or "killer metallic crust".

Anyway, I don't really remember what I read about this band that made me interested in them (though I know it wasn't the silly description provided by Wraith Productions, the label that released the CD version of the album) but somehow, I wound up ordering their tape, and I'm glad I did.  What we have here is some very fuzzy, lurching, mid-paced black metal with reverby vocals that sounds like it was recorded in a garbage can the size of a grain silo.  The style in which the songs are composed isn't necessarily that unique (sorta sounds like a crappier version of Burzum) but the execution makes it incredible.  I mentioned a moment ago that most of the album is mid-paced, but what I didn't mention is that the reason the group often sound mid-paced is that the drummer, instead of matching the speed of the guitar parts, usually plays half time to the manically fast riffs.  At several points on the album, the drums and guitar slowly drift out of sync with one another, eventually becoming completely disconnected, and sometimes, briefly creating this kind of awful anti-musical headache trance vibe where everything just sounds like it's being blasted in opposite directions, the guitar and drums refusing to coalesce.  I have their second album downloaded but haven't checked it out yet.  As long as they didn't try to make it sound any better than this, I'm sure I'll love it.          

Get the tape from Cocainacopia.