Review of Neron - Apocrypha in situ
Neron doesn't try to hide where his black metal comes from. Apocrypha in situ belongs firmly to the 1990s school: raw guitars, cold and ominous atmosphere, melodic passages and enough epic (sometimes) feeling in places to keep the six songs from becoming one continuous blast of darkness. It has that old black-metal roughness without going completely primitive, and the slower sections are often more effective than simply pushing the tempo harder. “Millennium of Disgrace” is the track I keep coming back to. The mid-tempo pace gives the guitars more emotional weight, and the song has a melancholic quality that works particularly well within the otherwise hostile mood of the album. It is still unmistakably black metal, but there's more going on emotionally than just anger and contempt. Neron is a one-man project based in Norway, although its creator originally comes from Croatia. He writes, performs, records and produces everything himself. The project actually began much earlier,...
