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Isen is a solo artist from Czechia that plays a very melodic and old school from of black metal and this is a review of his 2025 album "Zaklínání poslední zimy (Summoning The Last Winter)" which was released by Northern Silence Productions.
Synths start off the album and also mixes in with the heavier sections of the music at times while a couple of the tracks are also very long and epic in length. When the recording speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling.
Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the music is very heavily influenced by the classic Norwegian and Swedish bands. Melodies are also added into a lot of the guitar riffing along with the songs also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and at times the music also gets very atmospheric sounding.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style along with some of the songs also adding in a small amount of spoken words and the closing track is an ambient orientated instrumental. The production sounds very raw and old school while the lyrics are written in a mixture of Czech and English and cover nature, winter and melancholy themes.
In my opinion Isen are a very great sounding atmospheric, melodic and old school black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Zaklínání poslední zimy (Summoning The Last Winter)" and "Curse Of Undeath". 8 out of 10.
https://isenbm.bandcamp.com/album/summoning-the-last-winter-zakl-n-n-posledn-zimy
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