Like almost every other black metal band these days, Pest does not innovate the genre while delivering the trademarks of raw black metal within a slow and melancholic framework, with strong vocals, a raw but surprisingly powerful sound, and riffs and melodies that fortunately do not sound overly familiar. _Daudefaerd_ is not the ultra-aggressive, Darkthrone inspired kind of material some might be expecting from Pest. Instead it's much closer to, for example, the material on Satanic Warmaster's _Black Katharsis_ EP, as far the general mood is concerned. _Daudefaerd_ is a slowly flowing piece which consists of three major themes and riffs which get delivered and combined at epic length with a couple of slight alterations, twists and turns. Basically it would have been possible to slice away three or four minutes in the second half of the track without anyone missing a lot, but as a whole _Daudafaerd_ works. Never does it sound as if shorter songs were just combined to create a single long track, and it succeeds in wrapping the listener in a shroud of melancholy and sadness. A positive surprise, and from now on Pest are on my list of bands which I believe might have an ace or two up their sleeve. Let's hope they already deal it out on the next full-length.