BadMoodMan Music/Solitude Productions, 2010

On The Edge Of The Netherrealm – quite lengthy name for a metal band?!  On The Edge Of The Netherrealm is a project of Vladimir Andreev (Otkroveniya Dozhdya). He’s a very skilled and versatile musician creating great metal tunes.

What we have here is their debut album entitled Different Realms. It contains eight songs much in a Doom/Prog/Death metal style.  Their music is much a down-tempo and a bit monotonous and repetitive because this band unlike their inspirations Novembre lacks this melo and approachable catchy metal sound. However, the influences of Novembre are obvious, so are the ones of Inborn Suffering, Slumber, Estatic Fear and our local Danish heroes from Saturnus.

Vladimir Andreev is responsible for all instruments while Sethaye is only taking care of the vocals. This duo has a lot of qualities but the worse side is this monotony (unless it’s done on purpose?!) and esp. the sound of the drums, where one clearly can hear that those are rather programmed using machines and computers. It is a shame, because with a proper drummer this could have raised the overall quality of this material considerably.
The vocals of Sethaye are on the other hand deep, dark and grunting and fitting perfectly with the overall image of the band.

Usually I would never pay a big attention to this kind of a band, but having in mind that it is only this duo’s debut album, doing all things on their own, I think they can be proud of the final result.

For further info visit: http://www.myspace.com/ontheedgeofthenetherrealm