The requisite drum’n’bass beats, but also the scratching used in early techno, and catchy, almost natural-sounding piano chords and belted out soul singing.
Buzzes comfortably on a shelf populated by Cheap Trick, Enuff Z’nuff, Elvis Costello, and Joe Jackson records, with punctuations of light-speed Zappa zaps.
Where Emperor and Enslaved have epic, riff-packed songs often surpassing ten minutes, Galder’s are more concise, straight-to-the jugular tunes. Catchy, even.