Solfatare are hailing from Belgium and this is their debut full length opus. This one contains six songs of mixture between black metal melody and at times melancholy with some death metal aggression with just hints of thrash metal here and there for good measure at least I heard it that way. Vocals are diverse, mostly more of death metal growling but also there are some clean vocals on this one and at times shouting. The songs are pretty long in duration but album doesn’t get boring for one second because there are diverse rhythm changes, atmospheric parts, back to aggressive blasting bombardment. Lyrics are in French if I am not mistaken, so I don’t understand what they are singing about but I let the music do the talking, My personal favorites on this record are: Des Monarques Anhedoniques, Sous des Cieux absents, also Du deuil affaire.

So, if you like your metal brutal, but at the same time blackened and harsh, this is the right one for you.

8/10

Signal Rex