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	<<back Band: ASGUARD Country: Belarus Product title: Wikka Kind of product: Full-lenght CD Release year: 2005 Label: This Dark Reign Recordings Genre: heavy black death Line-up: Alexander Afonchenko (v/b) Andrey Tselovenok (g) Oleg Maslakov (g) Yurchenko Yuri (d) Tracks: 1. Wikka 2. The Vision of Dream 3. The Black Wandering of Death - vision 1 4. The Black Wandering of Death - vision 2 5. Master of Everything 6. The Ancient Track 7. ??? 8. Doomed... 9. Leather Rebel 10. ...an Eternity 11. ??? 12. ??? 13. ??? 14. ??? 15. ??? Total time: 60:55 min. Review: Where the hell these fine bands are coming from? Well, Asguard comes from Belarus and have inked a deal in The States with Devil Doll Records. This year the Americans released them already 2 albums and here I will talk about the first one, "Wikka" which by its name made me think of a pagan metal band, but I was wrong again. Asguard are highly technical (black) metal of a very good quality. The album starts with an instrumental track that prepares us for what will come, meaning that technical assault I was talking before, assault based on those twin-guitars so used nowadays. The next track that captures my attention is the third one, where there's a vocal effect I've never heard before at other bands and which is making me thirsty (the vocalist sings as if he has half of his mouth filled with water and he inspires words, not expires them). Track number 6 is an epic one made by guitars/vocal recitation upon a poetry of Lovecraft (I ended up mad trying to follow or at least to fing the lines the guy is saying, but although I have the booklet with all lyrics the guy is reciting a different thing than it is written here...). Track 7 is a track that's not listed anywhere on the booklet or in the tracks' list. Track 9 is Judas Priest's "Leather Rebel", an interesting cover made in Asguard's manner. When advancing into the album's depths I can say this is technical heavy metal with some death/black touches (especially the vocals) made by some very skilled instrumentists. Than the fog begins, when track 10 is listed as being a bonus track taken from their demo, but in fact there are 5 more tracks inhere on which there's no info at all. I think maybe they

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Band: ASGUARD
Country: Belarus
Product title: Wikka
Kind of product: Full-lenght CD
Release year: 2005
Label: This Dark Reign Recordings
Genre: heavy black death
Line-up: Alexander Afonchenko (v/b)
Andrey Tselovenok (g)
Oleg Maslakov (g)
Yurchenko Yuri (d)
Tracks: 1. Wikka
2. The Vision of Dream
3. The Black Wandering of Death - vision 1
4. The Black Wandering of Death - vision 2
5. Master of Everything
6. The Ancient Track
7. ???
8. Doomed...
9. Leather Rebel
10. ...an Eternity
11. ???
12. ???
13. ???
14. ???
15. ???
Total time: 60:55 min.

Review: Where the hell these fine bands are coming from? Well, Asguard comes from Belarus and have inked a deal in The States with Devil Doll Records. This year the Americans released them already 2 albums and here I will talk about the first one, "Wikka" which by its name made me think of a pagan metal band, but I was wrong again. Asguard are highly technical (black) metal of a very good quality. The album starts with an instrumental track that prepares us for what will come, meaning that technical assault I was talking before, assault based on those twin-guitars so used nowadays. The next track that captures my attention is the third one, where there's a vocal effect I've never heard before at other bands and which is making me thirsty (the vocalist sings as if he has half of his mouth filled with water and he inspires words, not expires them). Track number 6 is an epic one made by guitars/vocal recitation upon a poetry of Lovecraft (I ended up mad trying to follow or at least to fing the lines the guy is saying, but although I have the booklet with all lyrics the guy is reciting a different thing than it is written here...). Track 7 is a track that's not listed anywhere on the booklet or in the tracks' list. Track 9 is Judas Priest's "Leather Rebel", an interesting cover made in Asguard's manner. When advancing into the album's depths I can say this is technical heavy metal with some death/black touches (especially the vocals) made by some very skilled instrumentists. Than the fog begins, when track 10 is listed as being a bonus track taken from their demo, but in fact there are 5 more tracks inhere on which there's no info at all. I think maybe they