Band: Thyruz
Title: Diseblot
Label: Twilight Zone Records
Distribution: Bertus
Release date: May 14th 2010
Review: CD

Throughout their one-decennium career - Thyruz were formed in 1999 - Diseblot isn’t but this Norwegian band’s second full length, after the 2007-release Northern Blasphemy. Nevertheless, Thyruz did release five demos before, all highly praised within the Nordic-loving underworlds.

The forty five-minutes assault Diseblot goes further where Northern Blasphemy ended. Eight sorrowful, painful and blooded war hymns with a grim, Nordic sound and a cold, sinister atmosphere is what Diseblot consists of. The varying tempo (mid/up-tempo to lightning fast) and the breaks and tempo-changes are elements that make these compositions exceed the grey masses, and so are the experimental passages (like the intros, outros and intermezzos, like on Vargaate) and the members’ skills.
All songs, without exception, are of a satisfying quality. Never it disappoints, and some passages are just sublime in all their glory. Influences from the Norwegian scene are evident, but never too ‘easy’; Thyruz try (and succeed) to redefine this Norwegian approach of grim, cold Black Art.
The album isn’t the most renewing, yet it does exhale an early nineties-spirit, with pride, with honour. And therefore it does not need to be ‘modern’ in one way or another, does it?!

The whole does certainly not reach the level of, for example, Satyricon, Keep Of Kalessin or Immortal, to name a few, yet Diseblot does absolutely fulfil my expectations.

85/100

Ivan Tibos.