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Here’s one of those unusual, lost demo releases, in the similar vein of Lyderhorn Records unearthing of the 1996 Imperium demo. Voluspaa released this Demo in 1995, and this is the 2006 MCD of this timeworn, Norwegian Black Metal piece of history.

The band featured, Uruz, [Jarle Byberg] now of the mighty Urgehal, and Vulture Lord.

Musically, the band employs a very Darkthrone approach, complete with a very Fenris vocal delivery. The sound is of decent demo quality, audible and very reflective of the era it was created. This was a time when, demos of Keep of Kalessin, Mysticum, Limbonic Art, and Tulus, amongst others were making their initial marks on the scene.

Fast, snappy snares, twiddley guitars and a deep husky vocal snarl make up the general sound of Voluspaa, with slow, Satyricon like mid-sections. Of the four tracks, there is nothing to cause you concern that the band may have been a tragic loss to the scene. This is pretty standard Norwegian Black Metal, but its very antiquity allows that rare sense of authenticity to generate that atmosphere of murder, smoke and desecration, that was still very much in the air at the demos conception.