The tracks of this album are at the perfect intersection of Dungeon, Fantasy, and Comfy Synth, giving them a comforting texture while also providing energy conducive to adventure. It's everything needed ✨⚔️🌿
This is a sumptuous and incredibly well-crafted album : like an orchestral soundtrack foretelling great journeys, fights and adventures, Barak Tor has created an Epic Battle Synth opus that is an absolute must-have for any collection ⚔️
Almost ten years after its initial release, this album hasn't aged a bit, thanks to its meticulously crafted composition and carefully considered arrangements. If you're looking for epic and grandiose musical quests, you've come to the right place 🗡️
In a journey between Post/Atmospheric-Black Metal, Post-Hardcore, and Screamo, Uamh transports us to the vast expanses of nature, to the heart of their unfathomable powers, as if to better question our own depths. We are easily swept away by this magnificent flow.
As usual since his beginnings, A///Plague uses Melodic/Dark Emotional Black Metal as the foundation of his music, this time adding a heavier structure and a more sustained rhythm, resulting in an effectively powerful sound. We simply never tire of this magnificent antifascist project. Never 🏴
Once the gothic keyboard intro establishes its dramatic atmosphere, "Love and Agony" unfolds as a tortuous, shattering and relentless torrent of Raw Black Metal that will undoubtedly appeal to fans of the genre. The chapter then closes as it began, with a piano piece imbued by a somber romantic theme.
Accustomed to the well-defined musical identity of Unsheathed Glory, a completely different universe opens up to us under the name Eilenach : the Battle Synth of this adventure is clearly Raw, sometimes dressed in Black Ambient with screeching vocals. But most importantly, the quality remains consistently high ⚔️
Among the newer artists on the RABM scene, Hiraeth is clearly one to watch. The quality of their music (a blend of Melodic BM and Castle/Atmospheric Metal) is as noteworthy as the band's message : this album is titled "Tales of Resistance" because its members, due to their origins, have long been aware of the evils of historical colonization and imperialism. It's therefore as an antifascist response that Hiraeth intends to deliver its message and we can only applaud.
The richness found in each of Gilgareth's works never fails to amaze me : between an almost astral Dungeon Synth and asides of saturated guitars, there is a finesse of composition that deserves to be highlighted.
Long plaintive pads, long drawn-out notes of sorrow, narrated by a minimalism with multiple reliefs... that is the richness of this Dark Dungeon Ambient : expressing a thousand and one things with so little to begin with.
In a Black Metal that is still as melodic as ever, which doesn't take away from its rage, A///Plague remains clearly one of my favorite RABM artists 🏴⚔️🏴