Batushka are a band from Poland that plays a mixture of black and doom metal and this is a review of their 2015 album "Litourgiya" which was released by Witching Hour Productions.
Folk instruments start off the album along with some melodic guitar leads and clean singing chanting vocals a few seconds later that also takes the music into a very dark and heavy doom metal direction that also utilizes a decent amount of melody and after awhile the music speeds up at times and also brings in black metal screams.
When the music speeds up it brings in more of a raw style of black metal along with all of the musical instruments having a very powerful sound to them and you can also hear a touch of post metal in the bands musical style and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
At times the music also sounds very ritualistic and occult and they also mix in a great amount of avant garde elements throughout the recording while some tracks also bring in a small amount of clean playing and one of the tracks is long and epic in length and there is also a great amount of diversity to be heard throughout the recording.
Batushka plays a musical style that takes black and doom metal and mixes it in with Slavonic Old Church chants to create a musical style of their own, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in Polish and cover blasphemous themes.
In my opinion Batushka are a very great sounding mixture of black and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Yekteniya 2" "5" and "7'. 8 out of 10.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Batushka/3540404077
Lyrics are not written in Polish. It's Russian and Slavonic Old Church chants. however the band is Polish.
ReplyDelete8 out of 10??? this wrong, should be 10 out of 10
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