Fairly obscure but mixed well so that the slightly abraded instrument signals do not corrupt each other. What sounds like weird guitar tone on the Necromantia is actually the 8-string bass their guitarist plays for riffs. There are many guest musicians on this album, but the format they fall into is musically-aware simple rock of power chords laid out in slack upbeat rhythms and chorus passages. Garage ambience and echo but overall relatively representative although squashing lower registers. These three songs are simple elements worked into ambitious but fundamentally simpleminded musical experiments.
Low riffs squash together at a walking rhythm under whispering, chanted dark vocals.
Evil ambience pervades but these simple riffs, in simple verse-chorus arrangements conveniently modified for periodic emphasis, are unequal to the task and leave us with a repetitive romp through projections of darkness. All instruments are competent but every element is limited to three pieces or distinctive subelements, forcing a kind of patterning not unlike a dance into musical form. The groove later established by this band and worked in a slightly more evolved variation of this style is not there, nor are the ambitious guitar solos or harmonic variations. For lovers of melodrama and zombie movie effects however this album provides the redemption value easily in the dark and ludicrous but artistically conceived gestures of this early work. These recordings are from some segment of the demo process and have been re-released by Wild Rags records in a limited run possibly to be renewed.