Sarke – Oldarhian Review
Sarke // Oldarhian
Rating: 2.5/5.0 — Darkthrone meets Cemetary in a garage
Label: Indie Recordings
Websites: myspace.com/sarkeofficial
Release Dates: EU: 2011.04.15 | US: N/A
This is an odd one indeed. Basically, Sarke is a side project for Thomas Berglie (Old Man’s Child, Khold) and he handles all the instruments here. He recruited Nocturno Culto (Darkthrone) to do the vocals and together they released Vorunah in 2009 and now they’re back with Oldarhian. Although both men come from black metal backgrounds, Sarke is not a black metal band. Instead they play a mix of traditional heavy metal, Cemetary, Tiamat and new Darkthrone with some extra punk tossed in for good measure. The music is very stripped down, simplistic and not exceptionally heavy. At least for Nocturno, this material isn’t a big departure since it’s similar to Darkthrone albums like Circle the Wagons and F.O.A.D. Keeping their sound fairly consistent with the Vorunah album, Oldarhian offers more of their basic metal-punk fusion and while it has some enjoyable, rocking songs, it doesn’t completely work for me as a whole. Continue reading
Some may have read recently the post that made it on Blabbermouth, but was sent to anyone who was on Indie Recordings’ list about the restructuring and the fact that Borknagar and In Vain are going to have their records pushed back until 2010. Of course, this is a bit of a shame as I was really looking forward to the new Borknagar record. However, what I thought was definitely the coolest thing was getting to see the release list for 2010, honestly. This is seriously fucking awesome. Next year is going to kick ass for those of us who dig a lot of the Norwegian bands and the bands on Indie’s roster. Here’s the list that was included:
