Winter Eternal are a solo project originally from Greece but now located in Scotland that plays a very melodic and old school form of black metal and this is a review of his 2021 album "Land Of Darkness" which will be released in June by Hells Headbangers.
A very fast and raw sound starts off the album along with a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic 90's era Swedish style while the vocals are mostly angry sounding black metal screams and the bass guitar lines also show an influence of the 90's Greek style.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while the riffs also add in a great amount of melody. At times the music also captures the epic structures of the mid 90's Norwegian pagan black metal style along with some songs also adding in a small amount of classical guitars.
Spoken word parts can also be heard briefly along with one of the tracks also introducing clean playing onto the album as well as a couple of songs also adding in a brief use of stringed instruments, a later song is also an instrumental and the recording also closes with a cover of Gates of Ishtar's "Dawn Of Flames". The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover darkness, pain and sorrow themes.
In my opinion Winter Eternal are a very great sounding melodic and old school black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Crossing The Blackest Skies" "Crown Of Stars" and "Isolation". 8 out of 10.
http://winter-eternal.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-darkness
https://youtu.be/O8IhjBP0xQI
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