Obscura Amentia are a band from Italy that has been featured before in this zine with a musical style that I would describe as being atmospheric occult black metal and this is a review of their self released 2012 album "Ritual".
Drums range from slow, mid paced to fast drumming with some blast beats being thrown into the music at times, while the bass playing has a very dark tone with riffs that follow the riffing that is coming out of the guitars, as for the keyboards they are only utilized on the last song which is an instrumental and they bring a very dark and depressive sound to the music.
Rhythm guitars range from slow, mid paced to fast atmospheric black metal riffs that capture the atmosphere perfectly without relying on keyboards and synths with a great amount of dark sounding melodies being thrown into the riffing as well as retaining some raw and primitive elements, while the lead guitars when they are utilized are very melodic and primitive sounding black metal guitar leads and solos that have a traditional metal feeling to them at times.
Vocals are all high pitched and grim sounding black metal screams, while the lyrics cover dark and occult themes, as for the production it has a very strong, powerful and heavy sound without sounding over or under produced in addition there is a good mixture of short and long songs presented on this recording.
In my opinion this is another great recording from Obscura Amentia which utilizes more melody and guitar work than the previous one that came out a couple of years back and if you are a fan of this band, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Citedal Of Beleth" "Ritual" and "Descend Into Chaos". RECOMMENDED BUY.
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