Old Castles are a solo project from Chile that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a very raw, lo-fi and depressive style of black metal and this is a review of his album "Sarcophagical Lament Of the Past" which will be released in 2022 by Inferna Profundus Records.
A very fast and raw sound starts off the album along with a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. The songs also capture a very lo-fi atmosphere while the vocals are mostly angry yet depressive sounding black metal screams and all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while the vocals also have their grim moments. A couple of the tracks also introduces clean playing onto the album along with the riffs also adding in a small amount of dark sounding melodies at times as well as one song also being an instrumental.
On this recording Old Castles goes for more of a raw, lo-fi and depressive style of black metal as well as moving away from the dungeon synth elements of previous releases. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover vampirism, occultism, demonology, sorcery, the qlipthoth, darkness and death themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Old Castles and if you are a fan of raw, depressive, lo-fi vampyric black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Megalithic Altars Of Azazyel" "Carved in Funerary Bones" and "Crossing The Veil Of Gamaliel". 8 out fo 10.
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