Finnish cult band Mustan Kuun Lapset celebrates thirty years of existence and what better way to celebrate it than with new EP. This new opus contains three new songs and one rendition of old classic, one of the best known in their existence called ‘Morfiinisiivet ‘. This EP provides guest performances by for example, French professional cellistAxel Salmona, guitarist of the Norwegian metal band In the Woods... Kåre André Sletteberg, and Voice of Finland finalist and Before the Dawn vocalistPaavo Laapotti. Cello. piano and violin give richness and sweetness to dark music and darkness provided by this band. ‘Kirstunkantaja’ is a kind of instrumental intro, but ‘Muistoa kunnioittaen’ is a lesson in dark metal that only this band can do, mixture of perfect extreme black and death metal with melody and melancholy. Clean vocals interplay perfectly with growls and melodic heavy metal influenced hooks and passages, yet retaining enough darkness in the music. ‘On suruaika täytetty’ is for me the best song on this little opus, Paavo Laapotti delivering such great vocal performance as guest on this song, also violin and cello made goosebumps on my skin listening to this haunting melody and song as a whole. The new rendition of ‘Morfiinisiivet’ gave new vision and life to this anthem, thus finishing this celebratory EP. Great and best wishes!
I really can’t believe how I missed this band and not listening to their opus until now. Ne Obliviscaris released their fourth full length opus finally, after all the trouble with pandemia and shit around the world which delayed recording and production of this beauty. This one contains six songs, which are longer in duration but in no way boring for one second. Music is for me a mixture of progressive metal and melodic death doom metal with violin adding to sombre and melancholic touch of the whole atmosphere. I love the interplay between Tim Charles’ clean vocals rich with melody and growls of other vocalist Xenoyr. I love the concept of ‘Misericorde I’ and ‘Misericorde II’ a kind of heart of this album, at least for me. Lyrics deal with death, decay, grief as doom themes and battles and mythological stories as part of more prog, even power metal backgrounds in some songs. Anyway, this album is the one you should listen as a whole and not in parts, because only then you will understand the grandeur behind it and how beautiful metal music can take you somewhere else.
Now, that’s what I like! A mixture of metal and horror. Agarwaen are hailing from Finland and this is their second full length opus. There are intro and eight more songs on this opus. I love the use of samples, orchestrated keyboard and symphonic parts. This is basically melodic black death metal with modern thrash metal and symphonic black metal influences thrown in for good measure. Vocals are dual, from black metal/Gothenburg death metal screaming vocals to death metal growls and clean spoken word parts. Lyrics are horror based on a story about bloodthirsty cult so the album has some kind of loose concept behind the music. Heavy hitters like ‘Channel Of Lunacy’ with blast beats and melodic hooks, also ‘Graveyard Shift’ and ‘Delirium’ are sure to win you over and let you know that not only King Diamond plays horror metal. There are more extreme yet melodic bands full of energy that do this style of metal and I really enjoyed every single minute of this opus. This album creates a great cold atmosphere, so go grab this one.
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