Turkey... I don't know much (maybe nothing) about this country, but YAYLA has come to me as a revelation; still the fact that only one person is able to do something so good is strange to me, but what else could you say when a project like this comes and touches you in the inner parts of your soul... remembering that darkness is still out there, but only depends on you to find the good of it?.

This kind of bands, the ones whom use the ambient and maybe noise in their songs have always been hard for me to describe, but I'll give a try, hope this doesn't turn to be some stupid words from a mindless son of a... ok, the first thing I noticed is the use of good and long instrumental parts in each track, something that is hard to hear, but after a few hearings this becomes more listenable and starts to make a way in your memory.

The guitars here are very amazing, keeping that tone of classic Black Metal, raw but at the same time "frost" and very cold, but sometimes with a sweet and polite, if you could say that, touch in them making more creative the experience of listening to this type of music; these guitars go hand-in-hand with the bass lines, making them notice in the fast and slow parts, the keys put the atmospheric touch of bitterness and desolation, keeping each track in the good way of causing ambient becomes true when you put play. The production of this release is clearly good for this kind of music, keeping all the instruments as notorious as they should be, and not falling in the mistake of using too much the noise or the "Black Metal cliché" sound, fitting perfectly each track with the next and so.

The only thing that doesn't fits for me in this album: the drum programming, this kind of drumming has been a long time especially in the Black Metal bands, making sometimes the music repetitive and common, at this case the very good use of the rest of the instruments make this sound pass, but still is something that doesn't adequate too much for me.

"Sathimasal" has a very good sound, sometimes catching and friendly; in others relentless and implacable for the fans of classic Black Metal, always making a challenge for the listener in use of long instrumental parts. Things to improve here and there, but nothing that really erase the good things this production has.

Just for the record: YAYLA is a band you should put an eye on, after hearing this, I know deep inside Emir has many more at his sleeve.