Nontinuum is a relatively young Black Metal band that plays a very typical depressive variety of the genre. Like most bands of the genre, they have released their first demo the very year they were formed.
Dwelling In Oceans is a short, 3-song demo. Each song has little or no variety, but it certainly works for this band as they focus on minimalistic, melancholic black metal. The sound is mostly guitar-driven, although minimalistic, with drums and bass left out in the background with little or no purpose. Each song has only a few riffs spanning over a long time, but the band appropriately inserts acoustic passages, and transitions the songs to prevent boredom in the listener. The riffs create a melancholic atmosphere, and I cannot help but imagine the album cover with them playing. The guitars are quite distorted, and even though you can hear the riffs, there is a fairly audible wall of noise beneath everything, but it doesn't take anything away from the music.The vocals are typical DSBM - painful wails, but not high-pitched or annoying or ear-piercing, but rather similar to those of Totalselfhatred. The band even includes a section with annoying singing near the end of one song, but otherwise, the vocals are quite good. As mentioned before, the drums or bass are not noteworthy, as the drums play along with no variation at all and adds almost nothing to the music than adding a beat to it, yet, it fits the minimal and atmospheric nature of the music.
Nontinuum manages to create a bleak atmosphere, but lacks in other aspects, which I expect would be polished up in their future releases. This demo is a hit or miss. You may or may not like it, depending on whether you dig atmospheric Black Metal and can sit through long, minimalistic songs without getting bored.
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