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With that information laid down as a precedent, it is understandable that the music here is quite challenging to get into. Although the career of this band may have been very short, it is massively influential, and seen as the album that largely laid the groundwork for avant-garde black metal.

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Although this band eventually revived in the form of Virus, Ved Buens Ende only ever released this one full length, 'Written In Waters'. Although not coming too far after the pioneers of the infamous second wave of Norwegian black metal, they had a sound that was vastly different, going down a much more experimental route, while keeping all of the same eerie atmosphere that makes the genre of black metal so appealing to some. Ved Buens Ende is a legendary band in the Norwegian black metal scene. 'Written In Waters' - Ved Buens Ende (8/10) Newcommers should probably start with 'Written in Waters (1995)'. All in all 'Those Who Caress the Pale' certainly is a worthy purchase to fans of the band.

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The sound quality isn´t professional but the lo-fi sound production still suits the raw music well. Both 'A Mask In The Mirror', 'The Plunderer' and the instrumental 'Those Who Caress The Pale' are great tracks and should be of interest to fans of the band while the CD version bonus track 'Insects, Part I', which consists of insect noises and tortured screaming and yelling for a couple of minutes before there is silence for about 4 minutes until the insects noises reappear, isn´t really much of a bonus to my ears. Out of the five tracks on 'Those Who Caress the Pale', 'The Carrier of Wounds' and ' You That May Wither' are also featured on 'Written in Waters (1995)' but the rest are tracks didn´t make it unto the album. The music sometimes reminds me of the most raw Voivod albums mixed with primitive black metal but with strange twist and turns and haunting deranged vocals. Ved Buens Ende is a rather unique act with a unique sound that is both raw and aggressive but at the same time melancholic/atmospheric. This was also the three-piece that recorded 'Written in Waters (1995)'. The demo led to the band signing with Misanthropy records for the release of their debut full-length studio album 'Written in Waters (1995)'.Īt the time of the release of this demo, Ved Buens Ende consisted of Vicotnik (Dødheimsgard, Code, Manes, Naer Mataron) on guitars and vocals, Skoll (Arcturus, Fimbulwinter, Ulver) on bass and Carl-Michael Eide (Dødheimsgard, Aura Noir, Cadaver Inc, Infernö, Virus, Satyricon, Ulver) on drums, guitars and vocals. The re-release features the bonus track 'Insects, Part I' and is probably the most readily available version. The demo was originally released in 1994 on cassette tape but saw a CD re-release through Ancient Lore Creations in 1997. A couple of other tracks don't quite come off, but for the most part this is a strong piece of work from a band that did things its own way and succeeded most of the time.'Those Who Caress the Pale' is a demo release by Norwegian avant garde extreme metal act Ved Buens Ende. The highlights, which include 'I Sang for the Swans' and 'Coiled in Wings,' do an excellent job of tying together their different moods and sections, and they create a definite sense of atmosphere while also rocking pretty hard in the process. The songs, meanwhile, are mostly long - averaging about eight minutes apiece - and they take their time moving in and out of quiet, guitar-based instrumental sections, loosely rocking mid-tempo parts, and slightly more typical black metal sections with blastbeats and raspy vocals. This singing style has drawn criticism, and it is an acquired taste, but it is well done for the most part and fits with the cold, mystical, ghostly mood of the music. Elde's singing style is also unusual, not just for black metal, but for any kind of music, falling somewhere between a croon and some sort of gothic chant. Together, the trio interacts more like a jazz-bred art rock group than a metal band. Much of what is here goes beyond what is typically thought of as black metal - for example, Carl-Michael Elde's loose, almost jazzy drumming, Skoll's slithering, off-the-beat bass accents, and Vicotnik's frequently clean-toned guitar work (which has often been compared to post-rockers Slint).

Ved Buens Ende's sole full-length, Written in Waters, is an album of esoteric, experimental black metal that, years after its release, still sounds like nothing else.