Horna/Behexen

Horna

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2007)
• Original Release Date: February 5, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Moribund Records
• ASIN: B000NIIUMY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #258,175 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Originally released by Canadian label Autistiartili Records but badly distributed, this CD is being reissued with updated artwork by Debemur Morti Productions. Horna presents what is arguably their best material on this split, played with complexity and emotion. They blast forth with no holds barred, bringing forth only raw, yet emotional and somewhat technical Black Metal. To describe Behexen's contribution in one word : monumental. It stands out as a paragon of well-executed True Satanic Black Metal combining aggressiveness, intoxicating riffs as well as a unique melancholic atmosphere. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Necro Black Metal, February 19, 2008

By	Joseph Fletcher (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This split EP is fairly good, as far as splits go. Conceptually, a split EP is difficult to pull off since the album is from two different artistic (and sometimes conflicting) viewpoints. It can also suffer from a disparity in musical proficiency, i.e. one band is just better than the other. This EP only struggles with the latter. I'm just going to be frank: Behexen murders Horna.

Horna's first four tracks offer solid necro black metal. Nothing flashy, nothing ground-breaking. As far as this approach goes, Horna is pretty successful. The songs are full of atmosphere and venom. While I may or may not buy an entire album from this band, this EP is a solid representation. The real difficulty with this EP is that Behexen is so much better that they make Horna seem worse than they actually are. And to be completely honest, I can't really say much more about Horna because I just don't listen to the first half of the album. That's how good Behexen is.

Blood Ritual Of Flesh starts out with a fairly melodic guitar line that repeats a number of times before the drums come in for a short interlude, and then it starts. When the vocals and drums come in, the song almost reaches out of my iPod and grabs me by the throat. I'm excited just writing about it. Part of what impresses me so much about Behexen is that they have a fabulous sense of proportion to the mix and writing: all the guitars lines (and there are usually multiple) complement each other and fit well in the mix. This is really more of a testament to Behexen's songwriting than anything else. This is best seen in the way the songs are broken down. The songs are comprised of sections that have repeating chord sequences, though the sections rarely ever repeat. Each section takes various elements from previous sections, giving the song an excellent flow and keeping it from growing boring.

After I got this EP, I bought all the Behexen CD's I could find. If you're into necro black metal, buy anything by Behexen.