Rimthurs is an entity hailing from Sweden and it has been formed some time in the mid nineties but hasn´t been very active until early 2000s. This is the third full length opus containing eight songs. Rimthurs is in fact a one man entity spawned by creature called Niflfarinn, who did guitars, drums and vocals, with help of Mordh on bass. The music is fast and relentless black metal done in old school nineties way, but midst all aggression there are atmospheric acoustic parts and clean vocals with melancholy and birds singing like being in the deep woods, just listen to Mot Undergang. So, there is a melancholy and atmosphere with so many emotions in the music, that reminds again why black metal is such superb form of music. Lyrics are in Swedish I think, I don´t speak the language, but judging by my knowledge of Germanic roots of words they are more nature and maybe pagan oriented depicting beauty of Nordic landscape, darkness and inner feelings. I also must mention Eldens Andar being my highlight with changing from ritualistic Nordic drums to blast beats and back with haunting clean melody mixing with black metal tremolos. Half of the album are a bit longer songs but they do not get boring for a second and this one is an intense listening for all black metal fiends out there. Another great entity from Sweden is upon us!

8/10