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Greece's solo project Katachthon has returned with a new recording which shows the music moving away from the war metal style of previous releases and going for a mixture of first wave black, thrash and heavy metal and this is a review of his self released 2024 album "Raw Manifestation".
A very dark sounding keyboard orientated intro starts off the album while also adding in some black metal screams onto the recording which also takes the music into a heavier direction. Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing while the faster sections of the songs also add in a great amount of blast beats.
A lot of the vocals bring in more of a spoken thrash metal style while the solos and leads bring in more of an 80's old school extreme metal approach. Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with the songs also mixing in a lot of first wave black metal elements and influences of traditional metal.
All of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them, keyboards also return on some of the later tracks and clean playing can also be heard briefly as well as some of the faster riffing showing an influence of 80's era Brazilian black and death metal. The production sounds very old school while the lyrics cover Hellenic Mythology themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Katachthon and if you are a f an of first wave black, thrash and heavy metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Revolution" "Warrior Spirit" "A Stone For Abel" and "Dreamer's Sky". 8 out of 10.
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