Christ Agony are a band from Poland that plays a very atmospheric version of dark occult black metal and this is a review of their 1997 album "Darkside" which was released by Hammerheart Records.
Drums range from slow, mid paced to fast drumming with a good amount of blast beats being thrown in at times as well as some tribal sounding percussion in addition there is some drum programming that is used briefly that gives the music and industrial feel, while the bass playing has a very strong and powerful tone with riffs that dominate throughout the recording, as for the synths they have a very dark, avant garde and atmospheric sound to them..
Rhythm guitars range from slow, mid paced to fast riffs that are mostly dark/black metal but have influences from thrash and death metal as well as a good amount of melody being thrown in as well as some slow and soft playing being used at times, while the lead guitars are very distorted and melodic sounding guitar solos and leads, as for the acoustic guitars they use finger picking and full chords to enhance the darkness of the music.
Vocals range from high pitched black metal screams, deep death metal growls and clean singing vocals with some occasional spoken word passages, while the lyrics are written in a mixture of Polish and English with themes that cover Occultism, Darkness, Paganism and Dark Poetry, as for the production it has a very heavy, powerful and professional sound and you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on this recording.
In my opinion Christ Agany are a very good atmospheric, occultic dark/black metal band and if you are a fan of this style , you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE ""Heredity" "Dark Beauty" "Dark Goddess' and "The Key". RECOMMENDED BUY.
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