Nyctophilia are a solo project from Poland that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a very atmospheric and depressive form of ambient black metal and this is a review of his 2019 album "Bezden" which was released by Death Prayer Records.
Night winds start of the album along with some ambient style synths a few seconds later which also returns on some of the later songs. Clean playing can also be heard on some of the tracks and when the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the recording more of a raw feeling.
Vocals are mostly angry yet depressive sounding black metal screams while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Melodies can also be heard in a lot of the guitar riffing along with a couple of the tracks also being very long and epic in length as well as the music also having its atmospheric moments, when guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very dark yet melodic style and there are also a couple of ambient orientated instrumentals.
On this recording Nyctophilia brought in elements of ambient into his atmospheric and depressive style of black metal to create something very different from previous releases without losing any aggression. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics are written in a mixture of English and Polish and cover death, darkness, coldness and Satanism themes. .
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Nyctophilia and if you are a fan of atmospheric and depressive ambient black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Bezden" and "Swiatlo Wiecznosci". 8 out of 10.
https://deathprayerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bezde
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