Dreams Like Deserts - Aura Noir

This five-track E.P. was the first official release from Aura Noir, yet another Norwegian black metal band, but one that interestingly seemed intent on "keeping it real" (to use the black metal terminology, of course) by retaining the thrash metal influence that had begun with the likes of Bathory, before the bands started to follow a different path in the early nineties. As a fairly low budget release on Hot Records (some more authentic black metal lingo there), the E.P. has the fuzzy and exceptionally raw quality that's required when creating music of this nature, and although the drums can hardly be heard and the guitars are stuck permanently at the ...