Acathexis are an international band with members from Argentina, Belgium and the United States that plays an atmospheric form of black metal and this is a review of their self titled 2018 album which will be re-issued on October 9, 2019 as a joint effort between Amor Fati and Entropic.
Clean playing and atmospheric sounding synths start off the album while all of the tracks are very long and epic in length. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling.
Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. The riffs also add in a decent amount of dark sounding melodies as well as mixing both the atmospheric and heavy parts together, in some parts of the music the vocals also get more deeper sounding.
All of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them and as the album progresses clean playing also makes a return on a few tracks along with the guitar leads being done in a very melodic style when they are utilized. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover pain, depression, sadness and darkness themes.
In my opinion Acathexis are a very great sounding aggressive and atmospheric sounding black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this re-issue. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Life Only Festers" and "Stillborn_Isolate". 8 out of 10.
http://acathexis.bandcamp.com
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