SVARROGH – Lady Vitosha

After SVARROGH's first demo Baxas Xebeshéth 1883 got quite often good reviews, I was really anxious to listen to the newest work of this band. Until now, I always thought SVARROGH would be a one-man-project by Dimo Dimov as the main character, but when I looked on their homepage I suddenly realized, that this band contains even five members! But that's just some additional information about the band.
On this Black Metal piece you'll get to hear very solid played Black Metal from eastern Europe. The intro on this CD-R already made me a bit confident about the band's music style. The first song after the extremely long intro, is a very powerful Track, which contains many typical Black Metal riffs. It's sometimes interrupted by some fine acoustic parts. Here Dimo Dimov is singing something in his Bulgarian mother tongue. Sounds pretty good, but he should improve his singing skills much more. But on the other hand the screaming and grunting sounds damn good. It's often varied between high screaming and deep roaring - that gives the album the necessary alternation. The bigger part of Lady Vitosha is moving in the mid-tempo area but there's also sometimes great blast attacks. Now some words about the production, which is this time much better than on the first CD. Although I don't know the debut CD, but I read loads of reviews about it, in which was written, that the production is really bad. But on Lady Vitosha you can hear everything clearly and you can differ every single instrument. The guitars sound very powerful how I like it. The drums (sometimes they sound like a drum computer!) are not too much in the foreground and the bass guitar also brings loads of power. Lady Vitosha is a very nature-related CD! You will realize that, by means of the great acoustic melodies that appear every now and then on this CD. SVARROGH is a rather self-contained band - that's why I can't compare them with another band.
So... Lady Vitosha is an absolutely impressing album with a great appearance. This CD is recommendable to those Black Metal fans, who like it sicker and more melancholic than usual and who like to try new stuff.