The second album of the Swedes surprises the author of these lines, this can’t be denied. The squad of young Swedish Black Metal bands such as Blodsrit presents itself immensely fresh and refreshing at the same time and delights with imaginativeness and a keen sense of catchy riffs. MÖRKER belong to this category, too, who release only their second album with Höstmakter.
The „powers of autumn“ are unleashed in twelve songs. Rainy, stormy or dreamily foggy, the days become shorter, the winter announces itself. All moods are celebrated here, beginning with the double strike I Flodens Forsande Brus/Segertåg. Both songs dismiss the hot summer full of anticipation to the autumn months with their reminiscences to the early Dimmu Borgir predominantly in mid-tempo and with wonderful melodies which stick in one’s head quickly, but which don’t really offend as well. That’s why the songs miss any approach of clout. For MÖRKER attach too much importance to guitar melodies, instead of coming up with something just like the one or another mean killer riff with power chords. That is, sweet ain’t sour at the same time. Nevertheless, songs such as Falk with its beautiful orchestration or the folk-like Djupa Spår Av Tvivel cast a spell over you and remain in your head for a while.
The weak point on Höstmakter is the vocals of Ascaroth next to the already mentioned one-dimensional song writing. He has great screeching organ. But the emotions created by the guitar front can’t be found in vocal sector.
Well, now one might ask oneself whether nine points are slightly exaggerated for an album like Höstmakter. No, they definitely aren’t, because in spite of the given points of critique the album amuses oneself, is produced pleasantly and technically capably performed. And you will merge into the songs of MÖRKER if you like autumn as much as the three Swedes (plus session drummer Niklas) who present themselves uncommonly and fortunately without corpse paint on their promo pictures.