VREID – Milorg
 
Label: Indie Recordings
Release: January 23 2009
By: Stormlord
Rating: 8.5/10
Time: 41:09
Style: Black’n’Roll
URL: Vreid
 

VREID do not choose the easiest way, because the first track on their album Milorg, entitled Alarm, lasts about nine minutes. At the same time VREID prove that they know how to entertain their fans. The band uses everything Metal has to offer: fast played (Black) Metal with screeched vocals, mid-paced Rock’n’Roll and slow interplays – or in short: they care for alternation!

In further course of this CD the different speeds in playing alternate and I like that VREID set their focus on unleashed aggression from time to time. The track Disciplined rushes in with rapid intensity, ere a melodic guitar solo adds an anthemic zest, boosted by a clear sung passage.
Interim a dirty Rock’n’Roll attitude comes to the fore, contrasted and complemented by folkloristic interplays in homogeneous style. VREID also know about the time for slowing down, so that the fast parts can unfold their intense effect. Continuously, the rapid and highly melodic lead guitars enthuse in stoic as well as anthemic way.
Over and above, the use of marsh rhythms fits the elaborated lyrical theme; Milorg (short for Military Organization) is about a Norwegian resistance group in Second World War.

VREID managed to record a coherent album with Milorg. The compositions seem to be demanding and catchy at the same time. Consequently the impression of a homogeneous and also surprising variable band arouses. In all, this work turns out to be an acoustic mouthful for musical gourmets.