Pilgrim of the Occult
Got little package from PHD today and inside were 3 CDS: first two areВ Sarke – “Vorunah” and “Oldarhian”. I liked Sarke after the first time I listened to them on their myspace. It’s very close to Darkthrone in sound, though it’s a bit more clean and melodic. Of course, a lot of Darkthrone feel comes from Nocturno Culto vocals. 
The music is mostly calm in pace, some tracks even have somewhat extensive use of synth, but this doesn’t make Sarke sound mellow. I’d say second album (“Oldarhian”) is more varied because there’re more musicians involved, and still it carries that nice sharp feel of the first album. Very nice new band on the black metal scene!
And third CD is split of В Fenriz’ Red Planet and Nattefrost titled “Engangsgrill”. It features old tracks Fenriz recorded for his solo doom metal project Red Planet. It very much reminds forst album of Isengard – “Vinterskugge”, same sounding music and vocals. But on this album it feels more like old rock indeed. Second part is performed by Nattefrost of Carpathian Forest, that’s more punkish metal. Overall CD leaves mixed feelings as it consists of some old junk tracks of aforementioned bands hence it’s not polished nor stylish. But it’s still interesting as it reflects obscure sides of artists presented here.