Skythala are a band with members from Tennessee and New Jersey that plays a very experimental and dissonant mixture of black, death metal and Russian neo-classical music and this is a review of their 2022 album "Boreal Despair" which will be released in November by I, Voidhanger Records.
A very dark yet heavy sound starts off the album while the vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams. When the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats can also be heard along with the music also having its dissonant and technical moments and the riffs also add in a great amount of melody.
Orchestration is also mixed in with the heavier sections of the music at times while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. All of the tracks are also very long and epic in length along with the music also getting very avant garde and experimental in certain sections of the recording as well as the tracks also mixing in a great amount of death metal elements.
Russian style neo-classical touches are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording along with the tremolo picking in the faster sections of the songs also giving the album more of a raw feeling when they are utilized as well as the solos and leads also sticking to more of melodic, dissonant and technical style, clean playing can also be heard briefly and a couple of tracks also adds in a small amount of spoken word parts and the closing song also adds in some acoustic gutiars. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover philosophical themes.
In my opinion Skythala are a very great sounding experimental and dissonant mixture of black, death metal and Russian neo-classical and if you are a f an of t hose musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Eternal Nuclear Dawn" and "Yielding Quivers Of Revolution". 8 out of 10.
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/boreal-despair
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