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Yes the observant amongst you will have gathered this is not an English release. Sibensunden are apparently an obscure Swedish sludge core band and Nikanor Teratologen is famous in his home country as a writer responsible for some controversial ‘classics’ From what I can gather his renowned Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen is an apocalyptic tale of a child and his grandfather’s involvement in the black arts in a remote part of Sweden filled to the brim with violent, sadistic, misogynist, pederast fantasies (errr charming not)!
This two track album with both numbers clocking in over the 20 minute mark is “guaranteed to give you a new angle on the subject of Christian sects and religious indoctrination. Well if you can speak Swedish that is, otherwise it is pure gibberish.
Glad Dig Du Kristi Luder starts with some acerbic white noise before some sluggish crust doom guitars and slow juddering drums enter the fray. Then comes the singer (for want of a better word). Ok there are two ways to describe the vocal style; one is the noise a turkey at Xmas time being shown a box of Paxo and an apple and being told to bend down and assume the position, would probably make. The other is the sound made by the Knights Who Say Nee in Monty Python’s eternal Holy Grail. No it really is and they are relentless in their search for a shrubbery, haranguing the listener for the duration of this mammoth track.
I Hate records have taken a huge risk releasing this and promos of it to those outside of Sweden. It is so difficult not to describe this as utterly dire and un-listenable twaddle, or a hysterical joke that sure as fuck isn’t funny after more than a couple of minutes. Somehow though this gets under your skin and becomes an addictive morass of gloomy filth ridden doom with vocals that you simply cannot believe have been recorded in the first place. The spoken word part towards the end is a relief, still nonsensical and the instrumentation is still playing the same looped dismal tones. – metalteamuk.net
