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As with the drum work, it’s the variety here that helps make Necrovision stand out from its peers. The dynamic drum performance is matched by the excellent riff work provided by this duo. Equally comfortable with a rollicking mid-paced stomp as an all-out percussive onslaught, Horn provides a diverse and powerful backdrop against which Velnias and Onielar overlay their powerful riff work.
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He intuitively understands how to use them as accents to help propel the song forward and keep the listener’s attention, without ever sacrificing the underlying beat’s groove. More impressive is Horrn’s deft usage of fills.
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This helps guarantee that when a blast is employed, it gets the listener's full attention and delivers all the impact of a mac truck colliding with a mini cooper.

While he can blast with the best of them, he opts instead to use this technique as an accent instead of the template around which all the songs are built. Interestingly, the first thing that jumped out on early listens was the spectacular drum performance by Horrn.
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Instead of endless blasts and homogenous dirges, each of Necrovision’s nine songs (excluding the typical throwaway ambient intro) guide the listener through a series of twists and turns, culminating in a diverse and highly satisfying journey into the darkness.

The critical component in this is the band’s understanding and use of dynamics. They have continued to hone their sound and songwriting technique over the years, imbuing each and every song with a dark spirit and individual nature that ensure they hold up over repeat listens. Nocturn does follow a fairly traditional black metal template, but they are far from the one-trick, one-dimensional copycat bands that are so prevalent these days. And like all the band's previous works, it offers a plenty of aural pleasures for any fans of second-wave black metal. While Necrovision, their fifth full-length, is by no means new, it’s limited availability (at least here in the States) and only recent appearance on Bandcamp will make it new to many listeners. Releasing their first demo in 1999, the Germans have not released a bad album in their 10-plus year career. Whether it is a case of location, lack of press coverage, poor distribution or just plain old bad luck, it is a shame that excellent bands like Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult don’t get the recognition that they deserve. It’s often a mystery why some bands explode in popularity, while other equally talented bands wallow in obscurity throughout their existence. Whether it is a case of location, lack of press coverage, poor distribution or just plain old bad luck
