To the uninitiated, Mörk Gryning starts off their latest album as just another Swedish black metal outfit: evil, moody and just a bit faster, harder and more violent than can be expected from Norwegian counterparts – but not quite as necro as the usual Finnish fare. And that’s all very well for a first impression, but less than a minute into “Fältherren” (album opener, “The Depths of Chinnereth” hardly counts, being a short instrumental introduction) this perception fades like morning mist. Sure, the virulence of Marduk and unapologetic darkness of Watain may be poking through, but there’s far too much attention given to melody to make this record, Hinsides Vrede, deserving of such a throwaway comparison. If you really had to, you could find some common ground in the riff-based songwriting...
