Varechian are a band from France that plays a mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Tabula Rasa Ultima///The Morbiddoom)))" which will be released on October 26th by Sliptrick Records.
Water sounds, synths and clean playing start off the album while spoken word parts can also be heard briefly before going into a heavier musical direction. Vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams along with most of the musical instruments also having a very powerful sound to them.
Elements of death metal are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording while melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing. When guitar solos and leads are brought into the music they are done in more of an old school style along with the synths also returning on some of the later tracks.
When the music speeds up a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the album more of a raw feeling along with the music also showing influences of both the first and second wave era's. The songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
One of the later songs is also an instrumental, as the album progresses spoken word pars can also be heard briefly and a couple of the tracks are also very long and epic in length. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover personal experiences, childhood trauma, interpretation, invocation of death, arcane spells and dark magick.
In my opinion Varechian are a very great sounding mixture of black and death metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE " L’Ancien Monde" "Neikromanteion Of River Acheron" and "Re-entering Purgatory". 8 out of 10.
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