Naglfar – ‘Harvest’ CD

Naglfar has high-quality of their recordings. This is the fifth album by those Swedes. They are here again to keep up with the previous albums’ high recording standards while their music would still reeks of hatred, evil, and suffering.

Naglfar is one of those bands that can effortlessly mix raw energy of black metal that we know from their first albums with the elements of melodic death metal introduced in their later releases.

This mix makes their songs memorable to the point that you can recognize them from the first riffs. Traditionally, intensity mixes with atmospheric slower parts, melodic touches intertwine with ultra-fast brutality, and in all that, solos, parts of keyboards or piano are thrown into as if into a twister of sickening sound.

Musically, the whole band shows us solid compositional skills, supported by technical instrumentality and respectable experience. Christopher Olivius spits out wicked lyrics, he sang with such passion and malice, that vocals added an extra level of brutality, vocals are very strong and solid.

‘Harvest’ is an inspired, interesting and originally diverse piece of work.