Krom, with this 4-tracks-CD, offer us their typical black metal: a well done mix of melodic and rough. As I said for the first Krom’s production, there is a great skill here, too, and you can see it (pardon, you can hear it!). The first Krom CD’s typical nocturnal atmospheres are reproduced here. Krom succedeed in doing typical for them a melodic/rough sound, mixed with their particular oniric/nocturnal atmospheres: and this has to be called KROM’s recognition mark. A goal that only a few band reach. As I said before, there is a lot of skill, and the recording (recorded live, and all arrangements done by KROM themselves) is very well done: in fact, none of the instruments covers the others, and the sneaking underground noise that is the cross that must be carried on the shoulders of many autoproduced CDs, is absent.
Perhaps, this CD’s only fault is that the songs are very similar. Only with a very interested listening you can understand the differences, but an occasional listener won’t understand those differences. And this settorializes (what an ugly verb!) their fans.
A thing that I do not understand is the absence of the original Krom logo: it was fantastic, and very well realized. But these are little things.
Concluding, “Through the looking glass...”is a CD that has to be listened: but not as you can listen to a Cradle of Filth CD (only at first listening), but with loads of attention: only by doing like this you will be able to understand all of the differences between the tracks. And, I grant you, this CD is worth to be carefully listened to.

Nathaniel Jack Dirkvel

email: andreabasili@libero.it