Ram-Zet – “Intra
Annoying! I find several things that annoy me about this album. I get the feeling that the elements that bother my ears are the very factors that make this music what it is. In other words, the music is supposed to be this way and I’m the one with the problem. See how that works?
The guitars are often going very fast, they are hard, chunky, heavy, so and so forth. Not bad, actually, and together with the drumming, when the music is going full force, it’s pretty cool. The other elements of the sound consist of techno keyboards and tempo changes and high operatic singing and angry little monster screeching. The information I have says that people from The Kovenant and For My Pain are involved with Zet, the leader of this project. Thus, this is a bit weird, but not that strange, in truth. This is not really goth, because, basically, it’s way more aggressive and harsh. There is no “dark romanticism” here, dark harsh pyscho metal, maybe.
What annoys me is the high operatic vocals. To me, it does not fit to have the speedy, shredding riffs with nice, smooth, operatic, Nightwish-like vocals. It makes me make irritated faces. I feel like they are trying too hard to be artistic. The black metal-like vocals grate on my ears, too, because of the screechy screaming. Hey, some people want to listen to metal that annoys them. Welcome to the ball.