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Ratten are a band from France that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a raw mixture of black, sludge metal and crust punk and this is a review of their 2024 album "La Lounge Marche" which will be released in February as a joint effort between Negra Nit Records, Black Pandemie, Arsenic Solaris, De Profundis and Deep Cellar Records.
A very distorted sound starts off the album before going into more of a heavier crust punk direction. Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the faster sections of the songs also add in a great amount of tremolo picking and blast b eats which also gives the music more of a raw feeling.
Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them along with the slower sections of the tracks also bringing in elements of sludge metal.
DDark soundscapes, opera samples, synths and spoken word parts can also be heard briefly on a couple of songs and the closing track is also very long and epic in length as well as also being an instrumental. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics are written in French and cover discomfort, despair and humanity's failure.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Rateen and if you are a fan of raw black, sludge metal and crust punk, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Les Cris de la Meute" "La Lounge Marche" and "Les Heures Sombres". 8 out of 10.
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