Raw, melodic Norwegian black metal invoking feelings associated with the city of Bergen. The first riff of the first song is the best part of this album, the rest of it I never got much out of . This should explain everything better:

Abbas: I can’t get too into this Taake CD right now, it’s pretty cool but I think I’m missing something about the culture behind it or whatever, like if I took a trip to Bergen and dwelled there, I’d probably love this cause it’d have sentimental value or something… I mean anything I’d be listening to would have sentimental attachment but it seems this CD really suits that area all the more… this happened w/the Carrier Flux stuff that Jeff wrote, I totally got into the songs he wrote last year when I visited, it fit perfectly…

Angry Norse: I figure the extraordinarily crap production Taake uses is a reference to how it’d sound if you were in the forest and it was foggy as hell and someone was playing Darkthrone five hundred feet away at maximum volume…but yeah, I guess you’re right, really. There isn’t much on that album that isn’t a reference to a certain city with seven mountains and a bunch of trees.

Abbas: It’s cool music, just a bit upbeat… I confess I’m a bit of a poser at RUNE READING (I used to be good back in the days of Ultima V) so I can’t tell what the song titles are, although I catch him yelling NATESSTID on track 2 so I imagine that’s the title track.

Angry Norse: There are no song titles, actually… it’s just "Nattestid Ser Porten Vid" parts 1-7.

Abbas: Oh ok, what about those lyrics in the booklet?

Angry Norse: They’re just the lyrics to the songs, there are no headers or anything, ahah. I actually translated some of them a while back, they’re fairly well written.

Abbas: Okay cool, so it’s just more enjoyable if you know what he’s talking about. Angry Norse: It’s mostly just mountains, trees, night, forest, bjørgvin, forest, night, mountains, snow all the way, ahahah.

Abbas: Hahaha, amazing. Well once I visit there I’ll listen to this more and perhaps reassess and rewrite something about it.

Angry Norse: Yeah, it’s like Varg said a while back, if you don’t understand his music you should go take a walk in the forests in Bergen, and you’d get the point.

Written By: Abbas