AVLID Ond Bråd Död CD

The 2020 album Ond Bråd Död by the Swedish project Avlid is a compelling manifestation of Atmospheric Black Metal, released as a professional 4-panel CD digipak through a collaboration between the Dutch label Void Wanderer Productions and the Portuguese label War Productions. This debut full-length captures the quintessential frozen sound of the Swedish wilderness, delivering a sonic experience that balances raw, biting aggression with cold and expansive melodic layers. Released on June 5, 2020, in a limited edition of only 200 copies, the album solidified Avlid’s place in the European underground as a project capable of evoking a profound sense of isolation and misanthropy. The record is meticulously structured, utilizing three instrumental interludes simply titled I, II, and III to act as atmospheric bridges between longer and more complex compositions. These instrumental movements provide a ritualistic, almost cinematic flow to the album, allowing the listener to breathe between the intense onslaughts of tracks like Dräp Dig Själv, Griftslust, and I Dödens Skugga. The production is deliberately cold and sharp, adhering to the traditional Swedish aesthetics of the 1990s while ensuring enough clarity for the atmospheric nuances to emerge. By concluding the record with the relentless Yersinia Pestis, Avlid completes a journey through landscapes of desolation and death, making this collaboration between Void Wanderer and War Productions a definitive piece for enthusiasts of the more contemplative yet fierce side of Swedish black metal.