Unapproachable Light are a solo project from Chicago, Illinois that has been featured before in this zine and plays a very raw and old school form of black metal and this is a review of his self released 2025 ep "Mesmerized By The Unknown".
Clean playing starts off the ep while synths can also be heard briefly before going into a very fast and raw musical direction which also utilizes a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. Vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams while the music is very heavily rooted in the old school era.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while a lot of the music also sounds like it could of easily been recorded and released more then 20 years ago. Melodies can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing and one song is also an instrumental along with the solos and leads also being done in a melodic style when they are utilized as well as the closing track also adding in some spoken words.
On this recording Unapproachable Light goes for a style of black metal that is very raw and heavily rooted in the classic tradition. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover the mysteries of nature and the magical powers of light an darkness.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Unapproachable Light and if you are a fan of raw and old school black metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Ancient Eyes Of Gold" and "Magic Taphos". 8 out of 10.
https://unapproachablelight.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerized-by-the-unknown
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