The duo SVARTKRAFT, by all means, presents indigestive stuff on its third album III – Lord Of Vermin already recorded in winter 2006. In its best moments, the Black Metal of the Finns raises attention in letting the band concept “Hate, anguish and suicide” shimmer through and in making it to thoroughly create a dismal atmosphere, like in the gloomy track Fields Of Blood And Regret where SVARTKRAFT, compared to the rest of the album, bristle with imaginativeness and skillfully link pitch-black riffs guitar riffs in a clean form with dreamy mid-tempo passages. Above all the vocals of Godslayer are enthroned, which else wise drown too much in the pabulum. The Negation, the last track on the album, ties stylistically in with the aforementioned song in its last third but has something incantatory and disturbing through the use of backward masking in the vocals. An interesting final for the album.
Unfortunately, these are the two exceptions of the SVARTKRAFT rule. Yawning monotony and lack of originality is standard. Jolting drums already heard 1000 times meet minor chords meet hate-filled, extremely thin vocals. I don’t want to deny the Finns potential, especially not, if they concentrated more on the contrasts loud-silent and fast-slow. III – Lord Of Vermin is, thanks to, but in spite of the both mentioned songs only average and ain’t worth more than 5.5 points.