Wormwood are a band from Sweden that has been featured before in this zine and plays a very atmospheric and melodic form of black metal and this is a review of their 2019 album "Nattarvet" which will be released on July 26th by Black Lodge.
Atmospheric soundscapes start off the album before going into more of a heavier musical direction. All of the instruments also have a very powerful sound to them along with the riffs also utilizing a great amount of melody and the vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams.
When the music speeds up a decent amount of blast beats and tremolo picking can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very melodic style along with some angry shouts also being utilized at times.
Most of the tracks are very long and epic in length as well as some elements of folk music and stringed instruments being added on some of the tracks. Acoustic guitars are also added into some parts of the music along with some clean vocals also being utilized at times and as the album progresses a small amount of growls can also be heard, synths are also added into certain sections of the recording. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in a mixture of Swedish and English and cover famine and unspeakable horror during a Swedish winter in past times.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Wormwood and if you are a fan of atmospheric and melodic black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Artic Light" and "The Isolationist". 8 out of 10.
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