When Black Metal and the USA are combined in a sentence, it’s always guessing what kind of Black Metal you may expect when pressing the play-button.
With Mordant Rhed you won’t get anything atmospheric or melodic as it is vicious with influences from both the First and the Second Wave. With the title-track you get a first Bathory and Celtic Frost combo while on ’15 Winters’ you will hear a far more Nordic and Finnish 1990s Second Wave demo approach, with ditto icy riffs.
And again another face of Mordant Rhed on ‘Children of Spider Creek’, which is more brutal than the other tracks. So it is fair to say that although the Black Metal is vicious, what Mordant Rhed is presenting on their second demo, it is also diverse.
Chains, spikes and balaclavas…nope, definitely not Atmospheric Black Metal.
