Porta Nigra are a band from Germany that plays a very avant garde form of black metal and this is a review of their album "Schopfungswut" which will be released in 2020 by Soulseller Records.
A very dark and heavy sound starts off the album which also introduces angry sounding black metal screams onto the recording. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very melodic style along with most of the tracks being very long and epic in length. The riffs also add in a decent amount of melody while the clean vocals gives the songs more of an avant garde vibe as well as some spoken word parts also being used one some of the tracks.
At times the black metal screams also utilize a very depressive sounding tone along with the songs also adding in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Whispered vocals can also be heard briefly as well as some tracks also adding in a small amount of growls, as the album progresses the music also gets more experimental sounding. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover World War 1, Fin de Siecle era, sex and mental illness themes.
In my opinion Porta Nigra are a very great sounding avant garde black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Das Rad des Ixion" and "Unser Weg nach Elysium". 8 out of 10.
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