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REVIEW - KTHULHU EP HYMNIS NIGRUM

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KTHULHU 5 TRACK EP "HYMNIS NIGRUM"
Release June 2016
Kthulhu
 
Vocals & Guitar
Alexander Nylander
 
Bass
Mattias Nöjd
 
Drums 
Johan Granath
 
 
The Great Old Ones Awakens from Slumber.
Tones from the Abyss
Kthulhu´s Wheezing Murmur
 
They'll wake up from the slumber
they had been in since time immemorial.
Kthulhu the most powerful of the Great Old Ones
is an extraterrestrial creature
that is best described as three equal shares
of human, squid and a dragon.
H.P. Lovecraft mythological being
materialize with this band.
 
Who in the band who is what of the three parts
are not told and they leave it up to you to decide ;)
 
Kthulhu's debut album "Swear The Oath" put the band on the map.
But this EP will in future be seen as the real debut.
It is cleaner, tighter and more well produced.
It has more about Black and less of Thrash Metal.
The vocals is at a level where it maintains all the way.
They have really made an effort, and succeeded, 
to do a better craftsmanship.
 
The craftsmanship pays and songs like
the opening track "Blood Trance"
and the final song "Through Black Vessels"
work into the Nordic Dark Black Metal.
They have the prerequisites
to represent just that outside Sweden. 
 
Swedish Metal Militias Favorites on the album 
"Blood Trance" and "Through Black Vessels"