Skitliv is a project created by ex Mayhem's member Maniac. Helped by different people on drums and bass plus Attila (member of Sunn O))) and Mayhem) and Kvarforth (from Shining), he recorded ANFETAMIN, the first official Skitliv album. ANFETAMIN isn't properly their debut studio album because it contains two tracks recorded in studio (the main title plus a different version of "Slow pain coming", a track you could previously find on their demos) plus six others recorded live at Camden Underworld the 13th December 2007. At a first listening you could questioning yourself: "why Justin isn't releasing this one on his black metal sub label Satanax Rex?". Well, after a couple of spins the answer I gave to myself is: "this CD has been pressed on Cold Spring because of the its attitude". You know, Skitliv's music for sure is derivative from metal and doom and Mayhem years for sure left a trace on Maniac's musical attitude. The difference on tracks like "Amfetamin" and on "Slow pain coming" is made by how the guitars are treated. Vocals, rhythms and the general atmosphere find its root on doom metal but noise doesn't. "Amfetamin" has no drums and into its eight minutes length we have guitar arpeggios duetting with desperate vocals while treated noisy guitars build a tense background. Also for "Slow pain coming" it's the same: it has doom rhythms and crying vocal parts but on the background we always have a web of noise that change the overall atmosphere. It's also interesting to notice David Tibet's participation (with Andrew Liles) on the live intro "Who will deliver us from gold & planets?" where he perform one of his vocal multi layered laments just like on the early Current 93 days.