A.H.P.
Against Human Plage

So, A.H.P. with the album Against Human Plague, that sounds interesting. It is a project of a man called Gulnar who apparently also is known for participating in a band called Illness, and it is the debut album described as Black Scar Ambient on the genre part in the press release – how about that? Don’t you also love fantasy genre labelling? But what about the album then, how does black scar ambient sound?

Like black metal. It can hardly be described as unique, it is black metal in the old-fashioned way with some elements that can be described as ambient – such as long near silent parts. The growls are typical of black metal and it sounds like it was recorded and produced in a cave, not the Batcave though but some other cave, probably with bats in it. It sounds pretty cheap. Not very varied either, unless you count parts without anything in them.

Maybe black metal fans might find this album appealing, but I doubt it will appeal to anyone but those and will most likely not appeal to most of our readers. I am not impressed, the album is monotone and it feels pretty sleepy and also quite dull. Then again, I am not really part of the target audience so what I write probably does not matter to those who are intended to buy this album and they will probably find this album appealing.

In the end I guess it is one of those albums that doesn’t really do anything for me, well other than make it feel a little torturous to listen to and then review. So, if you are a fan of the more primitive kind of black metal or what is called ambient black metal you might find this an agreeable album, the rest of us will probably turn the album off halfway through the first track.

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