WATAIN
- The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain
Nuclear Blast Records
A great release as was with 'Lawless Darkness'. I don't own any other of theirs. These guys show the world how well black metal should be played and have originality to it. Intensity is not the word for it, more like a blistering onslaught! Depressing black metal but not entirely. I've found it a little bit difficult to write about this because there's so many changes. But that's what makes it interesting. It isn't THAT fast musically. It's rather dealing with tempo changes pretty drastically. Melodies that are depressing and a unique guitar tone to it. The vocals go great with the music. It's pretty spot-on!
I like the guitars and the vocals the most out of this
whole onslaught. I think that they really
got super creative on this and took it from there. These guys are well established in the black
metal community. What a triumphant
release! I liked all the songs and no
instances of this are boring or straight humdrum. This is an album that needs more followers
listening to it. Blasphemous, evil,
eerie and devilish. I think they had a
step up from previous albums. They
seemed to diversify and make use with sounds that are amazingly
constructed. A difficult one to wrap our
heads around musically speaking.
The production was a little raw, but not overly
so. The atmosphere is what sucks you
in! The slow points to the album is
where the evil lurks. Not too many lead
guitar bits but the rhythms are powerful.
And the aura is chilling. This
whole album isn't that fast. There's
points where they have interludes. Kind
of like old Opeth, to make that kind of distinction. All in all, a great release. These guys manipulate sounds and some tracks
never seem to get out of their pit.
Others that are fast and furious.
As I say, they diversify. The
execution is top notch. They know
exactly what they're doing musically.
I liked this whole album. I thought it did no wrong in any
respect. A very likable black metal
based release. These guys know how to make songwriting their friend. I bought the CD but streaming it is ok to see
if this is your "thing." Some
of it sounds like old Marduk, just in
certain places. But they're not holding
blast beats for a long while. They are
changing it up a lot. So yeah, show
support for the band and buy the CD.
These guys could use a lot more followers especially if black metal is
your gig. I like it only in small
doses. Being prone to their darkness, I
can only take this on occasion. Check
it out!
Ryan “Death8699” Fanucchi
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