Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters

Tracklist:
1. I Sang for the Swans 07:01
2. You, That May Wither 04:54
3. It's Magic 05:25
4. Den saakaldte 08:49
5. Carrier of Wounds 07:40
6. Coiled in Wings 07:04
7. Autumn Leaves 05:07
8. Remembrance of Things Past 08:54
9. To Swarm Deserted Away 02:14

Release Date: 1995

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Ved Buens Ende is a relatively unknown band from Norway formed in 1994. The members of this band are now pretty well known in the black metal scene. The line-up for this album consists of Victonik formerly of Dodheimsgard on guitars, Skoll formerly of Ulver on bass, and Carl-Michael Eide better known as Aggressor of Aura Noir handling the drum and vocal duties. Written in Waters is the one and only album that this band released before splitting up. If you're thinking that you're going to get a full on black metal riot, you're not. This album is along this lines of avant-garde/progressive metal with some black metal elements, such as the occasional black metal vocals and blast beats, throughout the album.

The guitars, bass, and drums for the most part can be described in one word, slow. Most of the time during this album all the instruments are very slow. Victonik plays slow, simple, almost doom-like riffs. Aggressor plays some extremely easy and slow drum beats that a 5 year old could probably play and Skoll is pretty much non-existent during the slow parts. The good part about this album is that occasionally the band goes insane and blasts into some crazy, fast as hell black metal parts. Aggressor goes blast beat crazy and Victonik and Skoll go insane with tremelo picking, leaving the doom-like aspect of this album behind.

Vocally this album is absolutely amazing. Now most people who know Aggressor from Aura Noir might think that this guy doesn't have a bone in his body that would make him want to make him sing beautifully. Well you would be wrong. For most of the album, Aggressor's vocal style is crooning. Crooning is singing in a soft or intimate matter. This is the style that Aggressor does for most of the album, but you can't have a black metal vocalist and not expect him to do black metal screams. When the instruments pick up, so does Aggressor. He pulls off some amazing black metal vocals in the vein of Varg Vikernes from Burzum.

This album is perfect for fans of doom, progressive, avant-garde, or black metal. Basically if you are into any kind of extreme metal, you might like this. The only bad thing about this album is that some of the songs last a little bit too long and become very repetitive and you might get bored during this album. I know I got bored the first couple times I listened to this. Other than that this album is very good. It's not really a well-known album, but it deserves to be heard at least once.