Bahrrecht – Nuit de Neige (2011)

Making its way from Ketzer records, today we have Bahrrecht and their 90’s inspired Black Metal sound in “Nuit de Neige”. In this powerful release we are presented with 10 tracks of pure fucking destruction that will cater to all fans of grim Black Metal from a few years back. Featuring Winterhalter (of Alcest, Les Discrets (live)) on guitars, this release is very intense and has fresh ideas here and there.

Blowing up in your face with the album title track, Bahrrecht wastes no time in creating the lovely whirlwind Black Metal sound that bands like Immortal and Satyricon came to perfect in the 90’s. The riffing is very effective and the overall pace of the songs is very hectic, but not extremely overdone. “Nuit de Neige” is a release that is very guitar oriented and on tracks like “The Sign of Bahrrecht Lotharingen Black Hordes”, you can quickly notice how well the riffing works in creating a thick atmosphere without resorting to the overdone tremolo-picking that many BM bands use.

Not being completely linear, “Ode a Undredal” changes the pace of this release very nicely and features a very entertaining bass guitar line under the powerful riffs and vocals. The tempo changes within the song make it very weird, but at the same time very fresh and different from what a traditional release would sound like. However, there are still some tracks that are not very good at all like “Frozen by demonice”, a very aimless filler song. Closing with “I was born”, Bahrrecht delivers a nice melodic piece that is very dark in nature, but elegant sounding.

In general, Bahrrecht delivers a good value for your money in terms of brutal, yet fresh sounding Black Metal. While “Nuit de Neige” might seem like a straightforward release, it has very nice little details carved into the songs. We are sure this band can only get better with time and we can hope they keep putting out quality albums in the future.

Release: September 25th, 2011

Country: France