MOLESTED: Blod-draum CD Rare. (Check samples here) Best Death Metal CD ever made HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Original edition CD (Effigy records Norway), but we need to find it as it is the only one from the entire catalogue that is currently misplaced and we are unable to find. We know this sounds silly 😉

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One of the best Death Metal LPs ever made! – 97%
What a fascinating CD.
And I’m amazed at how little this has been talked about. I mean, everyone I have ever mentioned it to had never even heard it. I’m assuming most people see it as kind of Pre-Dorknagar and say “”no thanks””, don’t blame them really, nobody wishes to sample HIV before AIDS.
But seriously, is this the same guy?
The way the CD starts, is actually very simple, no fancy intros, just background vocals and intense Death Metal riff work. When the song finally falls into place after 0:30, the riff change is fucking excellent. The song is very modest, don’t think this band had anything to prove, at all, just wanted to make some great Music. I like the volume of the vocals too, not too loud at all, the intense Music kind of drowns the vocals out, which when you think about it, is perfect for setting the level of all-around intensity, which means, some great music. Considering how the majority of shitty, shitty modern Death Metal is based around the vocals being too loud and obvious (probably to hide how bad the musicianship is).

Next track, ‘Along The Misty Morass’, is very majestic from the start, great drumming throughout. I think this whole release is all about the great guitar work, when listened to a few times, where the vocals and drums just compliment it and fit in fucking brilliantly. But when each individual constituent is put together, it fits as one perfectly. Which most bands totally fail at achieving. Very intense.

It is one of those releases that is so tight and the changes are so quick that you have to really concentrate to hear how genius it actually is. And even if you don’t concentrate, the outright brutality of it smashes you. You do need to listen to it a lot.

Track 4, ‘Following The Growls’, now this is where the CD starts to get extra special. I mean, the arrangement of the music so far is impeccable, very tight, very brutal and ultra consistent. But this is where it gets interesting. The intro is, once again, great. The riff changes entwined with the drumming would go unnoticed by the common ear, but it’s not escaping me, that’s great Metal. The real beauty of this song is after 2½ minutes of ultra intense Death Metal, it drops into a break of instrumental and seemingly traditional early European Folk Music, which is very beautiful. Which then PERFECTLY drops back into a killer fucking riff again. The drop actually sounds like another song it‘s that effective. Very fast, perfect Death Metal. Lasts about 5½ minutes, What a song.

The next song, the self-titled, ‘Blod-Draum’, is a great, great instrumental track. It’s not even Death Metal, though the drumming is reminiscent of a blast beat, with odd speeding up and breaks, but there‘s no Metal here. There is definitely this Aborigine type sound to it, pretty sure it’s a didgeridoo being used in the faint background, then briefly, similar to the break in the last track, the same instrument for the folk breakdown is pushed in the background, goes very well. This instrumental lasts a good 3 minutes. Then:

BOOM! Track 6 is ‘The Hate From The Miasma Storms’, which, is probably one of my favourite Death Metal tracks of all time. Oh my, the way that intro riff and drumming combo drops off the top of that instrumental. Then the way it totally stops and a few taps of the drums and back in again. It’s too killer for words. I mean, what a sound this band have created. Sounds like a swarm of killer bees attacking, or something, FUCK! Gonna just leave it at that.

Next song is more sheer brilliance. For example, the first riff, the time changes are so tight and so fast, you hardly notice. Brilliant. Vocals come in and compliment it perfectly.
Nothing gets boring on this CD, nothing at all. Perfect tempo throughout, complete consistency personified, something that lacks so much in so many Death Metal albums.

Last song on this remarkable CD, ‘Forlorn As A Mist Of Grief’, has a great acoustic intro, sounds very nice, then is DESTROYED with more intense and fantastic Death Metal 0:40 in. Then the atmosphere and sound created 25 seconds later is fucking intense. Nice tempo change 2 minutes in. 4½ minutes in, and the intro part soon becomes the “”outro””, but a little more discreet this time, with the drums remaining over the top. And just like that, the song and LP just stops. Truly remarkable.

Overall. Everything on this LP holds that paradox of being seemingly modest, with nothing too fancy or “”show off””, yet ends up being totally and inexplicably genius Music. Proud to be from the same planet as this release. Buy it.
Fucking GO!!!

good touch / bad touch – 93%

This album, though inexplicably out-of-print, became one of my favorite Scandinavian death metal releases very quickly after I had the fortune to discover it.
…though to tell the truth, in general, I donât have all that much of a taste for Scandinavian death metal – which usually means Swedish death metal – which usually means bands that sound like Entombed. Though bands in that scene parted with predictable verse/chorus songwriting, experimented with atmospheric additions, and pushed the envelope on shear heaviness, the basic unit of the riff often remained relatively unchanged from the previous generation of metal, even as American bands like Suffocation or Deicide dabbled in schizophrenic guitar styles.
For me, heavy metal or thrash riffing generally just doesnât do it for conveying an effective sense of darkness – it feels too obvious and direct when it should feel subversive and twisted.

But Molested hit the nail on the head here. This is quite a melodic album, actually… though the connotations that usually follow from that premise do not apply here. Instead of following foot-tapping, syncopated, hummable patterns, the riffs flow independently of ordinary rhythmic references, sounding almost as if they were being played backwards, each one moving freely like a forearm dangling from a broken joint. The presence of two guitars is exploited for maximum atmospheric effect, the left and right channels playing almost but not quite the same thing, an effect best appreciated with headphones. Itâs an extremely unique style – even all these years after this album, nobody else seems to have picked up on or copied it – and it sounds as disturbing and wrong as anything else in death metal.

In additional, there are a couple of interludes of what might be called a warped version of folk music; instead of providing relief from the relentless brutality of the rest of the music, they only add to the nocturnal atmosphere, and sound more demented than what most bands are able to come up with employing overdistorted guitars.

Amusingly, the vocalist/guitar player from Molested went on to play in Borknagar of all bands. He shouldâve quit while he was ahead. This album is among the best death metal has to offer.

1. A Strife Won At Wraith
2. Along The Misty Morass
3. Unborn Woods In Doom
4. Following The Growls
5. Blod Draum
6. The Hate From Miasma Storms
7. Carved By Raven Claws
8. A Glade Of Ingrown Blood
9. Forlorn As A Mist Of Grief