The Mist From The Mountains are a band from Finland that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a very old school, melodic and nature inspired form of black metal and this is a review of their 2024 album "Portal - The Gathering Of Storms" which will be released in October by Primitive Reaction.
Nature sounds start off the album along with some clean playing and synths a few seconds later while clear vocals can also be heard briefly. All of the tracks are also very long and epic in length as well as the heavier riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody and the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style.
Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while a lot of the music is also very heavily rooted in the mid 90's era. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them along with some death metal growls also being utilzied at times and melodic are also added into some of the guitar riffing.
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. Clear vocals are also added on some of the tracks as well as the songs also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts, the recording also has its atmospheric moments and female vocals can are also utilized briefly. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover the sea, nature, mytholo9gy and occultism themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from The Mist From The Mountains and if you are a fan of old school, melodic and nature inspired black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "And So Flew The Death Crow" and "Saiva". 8 out of 10.
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