May Result- Svetogrdje

*=Staff's pick	Kad Crt Sedne Na Presto Mesec Ja Sad Sa Nama Noc Crnog Plamena* Zloslut Svetogrdje* U Narucju Mrtvog Boga Pogrom* Kraljevstvo Mrtvih Gavrana

Genre	Black Metal	Glad	Vocals
Tracks	8	Kozeljnik	Guitar
Runningtime	72 Min.	Dusan	Guitar
Label	Rock Express Records	Rastko	Bass
Release	20 Dec. 2004	Ilija	Drums
Country	Serbia/Montenegro	Milan	Keyboards
Similar artists	Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon

May Result from Serbia/Montenegro have sent us their 4th full length album, namely Svetogrdje. 'The Blasphemy', translated to English. According to a press statement from the bands label Rock Express Records, May Result is a Serbian elite black metal horde. May Result have been around since 1995 creating black metal in what I would call the norwegian way, resembling bands such as Dimmu Borgir, Emperor and Satyricon in their early days.

Svetogrdje was put on tape at the Kazablanca studio in Belgrade and I would say that they have managed well to capture the feeling from early nineties. The sound on Svetogrdje is in the vein of albums such as the debut from Emperor or the Stormblast album from Dimmu Borgir. Spontaneously I feel that I like the work that May Result bring. An aggressive way of playing with lots of cool grind and blast parts. But as so often before, there is a keyboard that is way to high in the mix and is almost drowning the sound picture. I like keyboard and its purpose, but in a moderate dose. I guess it doesn't matter if you so got the hardest riffs on earth, the rawest drum arrangements - a catchy keyboard melody above it destroys it all...

The vocals by Glad work really well in all songs, that by the way is sung in their native language. Even though I don't get many words out of this Serbian curses and damnations that May Result cast upon us, I really enjoy the vocals. Slavonic screams goes very well with this kind of music. Good composing and arrangements, well balanced material and variety in speed and heavy, mid tempo sections.

The production is ok, but a thing that is not so ok is the song lengths. To have almost each song running up to 8 or 10 minutes demands extremely good material in order to keep up the interest for the music. Songs to recommend has to be Svetogrdje (The Blasphemy), the really good Pogrom, and the mighty Noc Crnog Plamena (Night Of The Black Flame). An extra plus also for the nostalgic vibes that May Result offer. Its not often you get the feeling that albums like the Dark Medieval Times by Satyricon or, as already said, Stormblast by Dimmu Borgir once gave. A quite ok album to have.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
6	7	7

Summary
6,5 chalices of 10 - Tim