Aitvaras are a band from Austria that plays a melodic form of black metal and this is a review of their self titled 2019 album which was released by Anthrazit Records.
A very dark and heavy sound starts off the album along with some atmospheric sounding keyboards also being used briefly. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very melodic style and one track also adds in a brief use of classical guitars as well as the vocals being mostly grim black metal screams.
All of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them while the riffs also utilizing a great amount of melody. Blast beats can also be heard during the faster sections of the music along with the songs also adding in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
When tremolo picking is utilized it gives the songs more of a raw feeling while spoken word and war samples can also be heard briefly. Clean playing is also added on later tracks as well as some of the tracks being very long and epic in length and as the album progresses spoken word parts also make a return in certain sections of the recording as w ell as keyboards returning on the closing track. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover darkness, war and anti religion themes.
In my opinion Aitvaras are a very great sounding melodic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out t his band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Coming From The Abyss" "Mourning Emptiness" and "Paradise Denied". 8 out of 10.
https://anthrazitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aitvaras
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