Katavasia are a band from Greece that has had music reviewed before in this zine that consists of members from some well known and legendary Greek bands that plays a very old school and occult form of black metal and this is a review of their 2020 album "Magnus Venator" which will be released in September by Floga.
A very heavy and atmospheric sound starts off the album while the faster sections of the songs also add in a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. Vocals are mostly angry yet grim sounding black metal screams along with the music also being very heavily rooted in the 90's style.
You can also hear a great amount of melody in the guitar riffing while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. All of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them along with the guitar solos and leads being done in a very melodic style.
Synths and ethic music sounds can also be heard in some parts of the recording along with one track also introducing spoken word parts onto the album, when percussion is utilized it also gives the album more of a shamanistic atmosphere, one of the later tracks is also an instrumental and the closing track also adds in a brief use of clean playing. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Occultism, Satanism, Magick and Sacrilege themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Katavasia and if you are a fan of old school occult black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Daughters Of Darkness" "Chthonic Oracle" and "Babylon (Sammu-Rawat)". 8 out of 10.
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