Svartby - "Scum from Underwater" EP 2010

SVARTBY - "Scum from Underwater" (EP 2010)
Folk Metal - Russia
Available for Free Download
http://www.myspace.com/skogenssvartby

Svartby is a bunch of merry fellows from Sankt Petersburg, Russia, who got together in 2004 and since then they are making something they like to call "svartcore", a combination of Technical Melodic Black Death Metal (Bodom - like) with Folk and Fantasy elements. Their music is both funny / entertaining, and very skillful, a great display of instrumental knowledge. The keyboard / synth part is a big part in Svartby's music, it creates a Fantasy like world and that's what you can ask more in a band like that. Too bad that this 3 tracks EP is only 7 minutes long, you can't stop from asking more. The tracks differ one from another, if the first tracks is a fast and happy Melodic Black Death with accordion effects, the second is a keyboard intermezzo that reminded me of the Italian Evol's keyboard tracks, and the third track is also fast, merry Black Death with xylophone and horn effects plus some futurist synths sounds that create a perfect SciFi Fantasy atmosphere. Again I must say too bad it lasts for only 7 minutes, this band is great.

Kaan