Three day work week. Woot. #BlackMetalMonday #TerzijDeHorde https://terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/album/in-one-of-these-i-am-your-enemy-exposed-barren-and-often-windswept

Word. #BlackMetalMonday #TerzijDeHorde https://terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/album/in-one-of-these-i-am-your-enemy

Listening to the first full mix of our album, super excited about it already! The sound is great! Still a lot of work to be done with small tweaks and corrections, but it's coming together!

#blackmetal #terzijdehorde #recording #studio #albummixing

Vuur & Zijde – Boezem Review

By GardensTale

Few things make as big a difference to genre as vocals. If it doesn’t have raspy screeching, can it still be called black metal? If it doesn’t sound like a certain blue monster swapped his addiction from cookies to craniums, can it still be called death metal? Vuur & Zijde is a new project that tests these questions with an odd blend of post-black and post-punk, eschewing harsh vocals entirely and glorifying love rather than hate. It’s no wonder that the line-up contains, among others, two-thirds of Laster, a band that also does not seem overly concerned with ‘genre conventions’ or ‘making sense.’ With other members cribbed from Terzij de Horde and Witte Wieven, Vuur & Zijde is a cross-section of the Dutch black metal scene, with only vocalist Famke Canrinus new to the scene. But is black metal about love really black metal to love?

The blend peddled on Boezem makes more sense when heard rather than read. The post-punk is a fair bit more prominent than the post-black. The influence of the latter is largely confined to the atmospheric streams of tremolos drifting off the guitars. The drums often remain fairly stoic, holding a steady yet sparse mid-pace with a focus on the snare and low-impact kicks, which keeps the overall energy reserved for the occasional few stretches of blasts. A surprise highlight is the bass, its dynamic compositions granting the music a bit more flexibility and soul. Overall, the darkly gothic and stifling atmosphere draws favorable comparisons with Killing Joke with forays into Alcest territory.

Miss Canrinus is the heart of the band, with a vocal performance hewing closer to occult rock like Coven with a warm, bewitching quality. Her timbre is clear and inviting, occasionally reminding me of Anneke van Giersbergen (Vuur et al), but despite her technical proficiency, her approach isn’t terribly dynamic, using the same delivery and intensity across most of Boezem. “Nest” is an outlier, showcasing several characterizations with phrases at turns sardonic and consoling, but a sense of repetitiveness diminishes their impact. Thankfully, the instrumental variety is stronger across the album. The aggressive bursts of “Onbemind,” the gothic doom “Us,” the energetic haunting of “Omheind” and the echoing atmosphere of “Naakt” all display different sides of Vuur & Zijde and demonstrate its aptitude for diverse yet cohesive songwriting.

Despite the unusual sound, Boezem sounds remarkably cohesive and lived in, as if the band has been honing its compositions for years. The only big compositional bump is in the center, the lethargic and repetitive “Kuier” which combines spoken word with a plodding, incessant melody. It completely halts the album’s momentum, and actually takes away from follow-up “II,” a powerful, synth-heavy and atmospheric track with a slow start that would have benefited from more contrast to its predecessor. It’s a sizeable mark on Boezem’s otherwise impeccable flow, but thanks to the strength of the rest of the material and the excellent production, it doesn’t sink the ship.

Though I’m the furthest thing from nationalistic, I do feel a little pride at the state of Dutch underground metal. Vuur & Zijde is yet another example of the innovative, envelope-pushing music emerging from our scene. Combining disparate well-trod genres into a new and engaging sound is no small feat, but here it feels effortless, as if the band has never done anything else. Considering the pedigree of the musicians, it should come as no surprise, but so often experiments like this fail miserably anyway. Boezem has its issues, the centralized momentum-robber chief among them. But it’s a bold demonstration of Vuur & Zijde’s qualities in both composition and execution and a very promising start to a hopefully fruitful project.

Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Prophecy Productions
Websites: vuurenzijde.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/vuurenzijde
Releases Worldwide: July 12th, 2024

#2024 #30 #Alcest #Boezem #Coven #DutchMetal #GothicMetal #Jul24 #KillingJoke #Laster #PostBlackMetal #postPunk #ProphecyProductions #Review #Reviews #TerzijDeHorde #Vuur #VuurZijde #WitteWieven

Go get our tape now from fiadh.bandcamp.com !

Very limited copies, so move fast. Or if you're in Europe, get it from us (we have even fewer copies so go go go):

terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com

#bandcampfriday #terzijdehorde #fiadh #bandcamp

We play at the same time as: In Extremo, Sepultura and Vorga. Let's hope people are up for a good amount of blast beats at the end of the night! 🥁

https://www.summer-breeze.de/de/running-order/

#SummerBreeze #TerzijDeHorde

Totally forgot about it, but, we can still do it even though #BandCampFriday is over!

We have some new shirts on the @terzijdehorde bandcamp page.

https://terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/merch

As always, we donate all the everything to some organizations doing amazing work! This time it's #SEHAQ, Queer Refugees Group and Veilige Haven (Safe Harbour).

For more information:

https://www.facebook.com/terzijdehorde/posts/pfbid027GDC7NbciaGYjpNJbeC2YYnNPbRB5RWmG3JwMSA2esWq8XU1QFi7yrBzjychHNcgl

#BandCampFriday #VeiligeHaven #TerzijdeHorde #BlackMetal #Music

About last Saturday! Us playing in the blistering heat on the Best Kept Secret festival. For some reason this is the perfect temperature for me as it is intense, sweaty, but no worries about cramping up due to muscles not being warm enough yet.

[Photograph by Paul Verhagen https://paulverhagen.nl]

#bks23 #terzijdehorde #drumming #meinl #blastbeats

Just thought about this project we worked on and released years ago (in 2015). 14 Poems of the Dutch poet Hendrik Marsman translated into English (with help of professional translators), released as a book and still available in digital formats for free:

https://hendrik-marsman.org/

Read for yourself why we took his work as inspiration for our band name, and how a lot of his work has inspired us with his drive to live.

@terzijdehorde
#TerzijDeHorde #HendrikMarsman #Poetry #darkVitalism

Finally it is announced, we are going to be playing Summer Breeze this summer!

#TerzijDeHorde #SummerBreeze

Amazing review of upcoming show and @terzijdehorde collaboration release with #ggull

https://veilofsound.com/2023/04/15/Terzij_De_Horde_Ggu_ll-Van_Grond.html

#VanGrond #TerzijDeHorde #Ggull #Roadburn #Offroad

This beast is now one year old, and it has been an amazing year. We played so many amazing shows, had so many amazing reviews, so many discussions on whether a 3 song record is a full-lenght or an EP, and SO MUCH FUN. Today, as yesterday (bandcamp friday), all sales will go to Extinction Rebellion NL (https://extinctionrebellion.nl). Here's to saving the world, by any means necessary.

https://terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com

#TerzijDeHorde #BlackMetal #BandCampFriday

Our release "In One of These, I am Your Enemy" chosen by Dutch paper NRC to be one of the 25 Dutch album releases of the year 2022.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/12/22/de-25-beste-nederlandse-albums-van-2022-a4151701

#TerzijDeHorde #InOneOfTheseIAmYourEnemy #blackMetalAgainstFascism #blackMetal

Closing the evening the mighty Terzij De Horde for Doomstad! So god damn much power!

@terzijdehorde

#doomstad #metal #livemusic #music #utrecht #terzijdehorde

So, we want to move our band account from Twitter to Mastodon (finally, i have been pushing for this for ages).

What would be a good instance for a leftist black metal band. currently at birbsite/terzijdehorde

#TerzijDeHorde #Mastodon #instance #band #music