Ifryt – Nudy

Nudy is the most recent release from Polish Experimental Speed/Black Metal hybrid band Ifryt – With heavy emphasis on experimental. 

Having been around since 2017 where their debut Ep was released, the band then went on hiatus from 2018 until 2022, from where a few more releases began to crop up. The most recent of these is a six tracks long EP entitled Nudy (Polish for ‘Boring’), that spans twenty-five minutes of – Well, experimentation. 

Truth be told, I am having a hard time making heads or tails of what exactly to think of Ifryt – In no small part due to my reluctance to delve into mixed genres as well as Progressive/Experimental bands as a whole due to its often very, to my ears, unorthodox approaches. You never know what you will get, which also proves to be the case with this EP. While I do hear the Black Metal influences spread across all six tracks, I occasionally lose them behind various soundbites, heavy use of keyboards and non-tangental rants, almost. All of this seems to be intentional, seeing as how one of their lyrical themes, according to what I could find online, is ‘Gibberish’. So while this band and record is by no means for me or people of my ilk, I will still give them credit for being one of the more truly unique Metal bands that I have stumbled across – And I am definitely an experience richer having crossed paths with them. 

Not entirely sure what fan-base to recommend this release to, so instead I will recommend everyone even remotely intrigued by this scribble to give the record a spin. A link can be found below. 

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