Today´s featured band is Texas based melodic black death metal entity called Sinira. It has been active in the scene since 2016 and is a brainchild of one Knell who handles all the instruments and vocals. Northern Silence Productions released debut full length album and it contains eight songs in just about less than one hour duration. I love melodic black death metal in the vein of Gothenburg styled bands like Dissection, Gates of Ishtar, Dawn and similar European acts meaning aggressive and fast paced black death metal with superb guitar melodies and hooks, dark and melancholic, also epic vibe to the songs and lyrics that are personal yet also in your face in a way if you read between the lines. This album was pure energy bomb when I first listened to it and I gladly return to music of Sinira ever so often because it is a lesson how to write and play perfect album with no fillers, only dark energy, cold yet warming to your old blackened metal heart. My personal favorites are: Gardens of Pestilence, Tear Ladened Skies and Our Final Nightfall. Epic album.
WinterMoonShade is a Portuguese based Melodic Black Metal band. Forged on a cold winter night, inspired by contrasting light and shadows landscape.
From the deepest quiet forest breeze into the storm blast devastation. A journey between dusk and dawn, brilliant sight and darkness converged into sound.
Causam are hailing from Switzerland and this is their first full length album. This record contains eight songs, one being intro. Music of Causam can be described as fast yet melodic black metal. Their music creates atmosphere of aggression, sorrow, despair, yet at the same time melancholy with excellent melodies and guitar work. Drumming is mainly blast beats, yet turning at times into beautiful atmospheric passages just reminding me why I love black metal so much, being best music for expressing all of your emotions. My personal favorites are Beauty of Decay and Eternal, although all of the songs are just excellent. Vocals are black metal screeching but being perfect and fitting fantastic to the song structures. The lyrical themes are more deep and personal than in your face Satanic verses and the mixture of epic music and great lyrics make this one of the best black metal records that came out this year until now.
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