Orgg - The Great White War

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    Orgg
    The Great White War

    Year: 2020
    Genre: Black Metal
    Label: 
    Vacula Productions(2020) Eternal Winter Records(2021)
    Country: Italy
    Line Up:
    - vocals
    Vulak - guitars
    Iblis - bass
    Osten - synths
    Nocnitsa/Nazgaral - drums / programming
    Cover artwork by Vladimir Chebakov "Smerdulak"

    Orgg, an Italian band of three members, made their debut directly with a full-length, including Iblis A.G., a former member of Funeral Oration, Noctifer and Kurgaal.

    The concept behind this work is interesting, it is a tribute to nature, disfigured by the actions of man during the White War, to celebrate its survival despite what it suffered during the war conflicts.

    A Black Metal album composed of songs with a fairly rhythmic pace, linear and "square" structures with a classic riffing, not always particularly inspired, based on tremolo picking, but which also slower parts of arpeggios and chords;

    there are some bass phrases, and above all the good work of "L.": convincing timbre both when it is expressed in screaming, not excessively acute, and when it goes down to lower and cavernous tones.

    The sore point instead of the drum programming, excessively basic, with solutions at times unconvincing and with sounds with almost non-existent dynamics;

    the work of a real drummer would undoubtedly have benefited the sound.

    Good production, perhaps excessively clean, in which everything is distinguishable, the album, sounds modern, refined and even the inserts of battle noises and shouts are well blended with the sound.

    "Dolomia", "Conturina" and "The Great White War" are the three most characteristic songs of the entire work, which give hardened collectors an extra album to add to their collection.


    Andrea B.