Schizophrenic and untouchable as always the Ram-zet project is back, and reaches with this new “Intra” the third discographic release, continuing proceeding along a very personal speech made of truly original hard sounds to frame. Simplifying, the offer of Ram-Zet can be summed up in the created contrast between guitar and voice: the riffing is indeed very hard and complex, industrial and dehumanizer, and here offers us peaks of harshness maybe never reached before; instead the singing is ethereal and (seemingly) angelic, entrusted almost completely to the charming uvula of Miriam Renvåg (better known as Sfinx) supported by the backing vocals of Ingvild Johanessen (aka Sareeta). And it’s this contrast, as we said, to mark the style of the album, in a twisting match which, long from limiting to a mere effect of alienation, often succeeds to conquer the attention of the listener with strength. Dark, industrial, black, death, thrash and even gothic metal: none of such definitions seem sufficient, alone, to define such an offer which contains, in a more or less relevant measure, elements of all of these genres together. Able to offer a particular musical structure (enriched also by the use of the violin of Sareeta) but always and anyway extreme, the work of Henning Ramseth (or simply Zet) is to appreciate for its stubborn will to follow his musical ideas without being distracted by opportunistic considerations. And we address our praise to him for the third time in a row.

Dario Adile