Utgard-Loke - Black Moors Adv. Tape 1995

Utgard-Loke [pre-Utgard] - Black Moors advance tape 1995
1) Black Moors of the Troll-Land
2) Alla mustan taivaan
3) Wotan

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A quick black metal post today and for change something from brother Grev's vaults. This is an advance tape for a supposed demo by Finnish black metallers Utgard-Loke who instead simplified their monicker to just Utgard and went on to release a demo titled "Northern Glory" (and several others, continuing their activities to this day and age after a brief stint under the name BurialMound) which also features these three songs. Since I haven't heard that one I can't say if they're exactly the same recordings and/or versions as here but M.A. lists that demo having a different version of "Black Moors..." as bonus track which made me think it could be the version here? Anyways, feel free to inform me if you know better. No cover for this one and I doubt one existed, this being an advance tape.

Musically this is mid-90's Finnish black metal, with a pretty rough but clear demo sound. The slightly dry, raw and crispy sort. If you're familiar with Utgard's demos I suppose you know what to expect from the music. It's moderately fast, quite melodic in a grim way and rather straight forward though the songs feature sections of different tempos. Vocals are done in a quite monotonous, half-spoken croak which might remind you of Warloghe though not as grim. Listening to this makes me want to hear the debut Utgard demo finally and the rehearsal tapes, it's nothing to start riots and go burn cars on streets for but listenable enough and oddly appeals to me on this listen while previous time I tried it some months ago I got nothing out of it. Give it a shot if Finnish 90's bm is your thing.