Mantiel are an international band with members from Germany and Chile that has had music reviewed before in this zine and in this recording plays a very raw and old school form of black metal and this is a review of their 2023 album "Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism History" which will be released in March by Inferna Profundus Records.
Drum beats start off the album along with some heavy riffing a few seconds later while the vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams. Most of the music is also very heavily rooted in the 90's era along with the songs also capturing a very dark and lo-fi atmosphere at times and some of the tracks are also long and epic in length.
When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast b eats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling. One song is also an instrumental and also introduces clean playing onto the recording along with the tracks also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts, most of the riffing is done on power chords and they also bring in a cove r of Raven Dark's "For Glory Hat" which also adds in a brief use of melodic vocals.
On this recording Mantiel plays a style of black metal t hat is very raw and lo-fi in the 90's tradition. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Occultism, Mysticism, Paganism and Nature themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from mantiel and if you are a fan of raw and old school black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Wisdom of the Ancients" and "Memories Of majestic Ruins". 8 out of 10.
https://infernaprofundusrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vestiges-engraved-in-frozen-mysticism-history
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