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Metalstorm:
As the cover art strongly suggests, Morbide Elite is a black metal album. It's the type of black metal that leans heavily towards the old greats of the genre and displays a serious primitive attitude. Lyric-wise the Belgians didn't opt for the often-trotted Satan-is-my-fuck-buddy path, but instead sing about pest and hunger in their native Flemish language.
Packing a whole suitcase of lightning-paced drumming and riffs as dirty as a pig's ass, Huldrefolk have already mastered two of the most important ingredients for a great black metal album. Unfortunately the vocals don't completely live up to the instrument's high standard. They get the job done, but do sound a bit weak in the process. Varied song structures - including some melodic parts (played with clean guitars though, there are no keyboards on this release) - and somewhat diverse songs are also always a good thing. One of the only issues I have with this CD aside from the vocals is that the production is just a bit too muddy. Of course it's not supposed to be clean in the rawer forms of black metal, but I feel that it should have been just a bit better to do justice to the guitar work.
With a pleasant playing time of just over 50 minutes and a 16-page booklet to complete the package, Morbide Elite is a solid album for enthusiasts of the genre. Granted, they're not doing anything new and there definitely are some bands that are even better at playing this kind of music, but this is still a good, strong album. If you enjoy this music you're likely to like Huldrefolk as well, in case you don't, these Belgians won't change your opinion either.
7.9
http://www.metalstorm.ee/pub/review.php?review_id=7424
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Belgium has a strong position on the black metal map nowadays. Huldrefolk has become one of the leaders rapidly. “Eeuwenhout was a step in the right direction but it is with this new release “Morbid Elite” where they seem to really got their shit together. The music while being fairly basic -and reminding me of early Marduk- does make limited amount of instrumentation in these days, including very sparse samples in a non-overpowering way, a militaristic drum beat that fits directly into the song, some killer and evil leads in certain spots, acoustic guitar parts as well as an outro that is muffled, eerie sounding and taken from the movie “The Seventh Seal”. One of the things that I love about this album is the natural production. It's not raw in the sense of early Darkthrone (although it certainly isn't clean), but more like an early (here we have them again) Marduk production, as if you are walking through a gloomy forest on a dark evening, watching the band perform these songs. Despite sounding this way, it doesn't come off as half assed and each instrument is sufficiently audible. The lyrics handle the themes Pest, trolls and swamps. The artwork is done by one of the members Waldschrat and contributes to the overall eerie sounding music. There is not much wrong with Huldrefolk's second release and I will think that their medieval infecting grief will conquer the world by storm!
84/100
http://www.mariosmetalmania.com/CDDVDreviews.html
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En nog een op mortemzine:
http://www.mortemzine.net/show.php?id=1923
Als je het kan lezen ten minste haha.
