5/6/2023 0 Comments Ved buens end![]() ![]() Carl Michael Eide’s drum playing is ridiculously dense and the listener is prompt to pay attention to the abstract way he makes the cymbals sound, keeping them constantly “out” of the main rhythm. When the riffs are slow, they are mesmerizingly ritualistic, while essentially technical at the same time. The drums follow the ways of the guitars from a distance, not talking however the same language. However, VBE give in as well, to the monotonous ultra-fast black metal riffing, only to provide a temporary way out from the musical fog they create in prior stages per song. Furthermore, it is more than obvious that the band’s guitarist, Vicotnic, composed those riffs with an acoustic guitar, a subtlety that adds up significantly to their impact, in terms of eeriness and melancholy. They build their songs mostly on slow, abstract, spirally revolving and dissonant riffs that reveal themselves from a thin wall of white noise fuzz, only to disappear in it the next moment. Instead of using the classic black metal songwriting elements (blastbeat drumming, the “monotonous” ultra-fast riffing in different climaxes and the corresponding vocals for the genre), VBE arrange their affairs differently. The element of surprise for VBE lies in that they endorse a heretic way of composing music, within the extreme metal spectrum. What do Ved Buens Ende accomplish with Those who Caress the Pale? Ved Buens Ende first demo tape, Those who Caress the Pale, is the first known musical transmission from their territory, accounting for the avant-garde part of the extreme metal spectrum and aiming to make its distinct mark. By the end of the rainbow (=Ved Buens Ende in Norwegian), the only existing color is the dark gray of the stormy sky. However, rainbows aren’t solely bright and colorful. Rainbows are one of nature’s most spectacular sights, the immaculate interface between fire and water that results in the separation of white light to its constituent bright and colorful components. He is not able to play drums anymore, but is still active as a vocalist, guitarist and bassist.Review Summary: Ved Buens Ende’s first demo stands as testament of an extreme metal band that comes ridiculously close in realizing a quantum leap towards a sound simply unthinkable. He has lost the use of his feet as a result of the incident. On 26 March 2005 he fell from a four-story building and spent several months in hospital. He was also a session drummer for Dimmu Borgir on their 1997 tour. ![]() Beyond that, he continues to write material for Aura Noir and Virus. He has gone back to playing guitar and was writing music for the re-grouped Ved Buens Ende, before the band once again split up in early 2007. Other than usual harsh vocals in black metal, he uses a form of croon in the avant-garde metal bands Ved Buens Ende and Virus. His drumming is unusual in style, with very little repetition and a tendency to shy away from traditional drumming. These include Ved Buens Ende, Aura Noir, Cadaver, Dødheimsgard, Satyricon, Ulver, Infernö and recently the jazz/rock band Virus. ![]() Carl-Michael Eide has played in various black metal and avant-garde metal bands.
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