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Nocturnal Wanderer are a solo project from Portland, Oregon that h as been featured before in this zine and on this recording goes for an old school form of black metal with elements of classic metal and this is a review of his 2024 album "The Evernight" which will be released in July by Altare Productions.
A very dark, heavy and melodic sound starts off the album along with the vocals being mostly grim sounding black metal screams. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the solos and leads also add in a great amount of melody and some of the riffing adds in elements of 90's metal.
When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling. A lot of the music is very heavily rooted in the second wave era of black metal along with the album also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
Some of the tracks are also long and epic in length as well as one song also adding in a brief use of spoken word parts and clean playing can also be heard briefly and as the album progress a small amount of clear vocals are also utilized, the closing track also adds in some synths and night sounds. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover the untamable power of darkness.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Nocturnal Wanderer and if you are a fan of old school black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Waning Crescent" "Before The Dawn" and "Waut For The Blackout". 8 out of 10.
https://nocturnalwanderer.bandcamp.com/album/gift-of-the-night
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