Italy's Ashlands have returned with a new recording which shows the music going for an epic and atmospheric form of black metal and this is a review of their self released ep "III" which will be released in 2025.
Field recordings start off the ep along with some acoustic guitars and nature sounds a few seconds later. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style while most of the tracks are also very long and epic in length and the vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the faster sections of the songs also add in a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats which also gives the music more of a raw feeling and throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts, clear singing and spoken word parts can also be heard briefly and keyboards are also a very huge part of most of the tracks and elements of ambient and doom metal are also utilized at times.
On this recording Ashlands focuses more of an atmospheric and epic style of black metal as well as being more aggressive then previous releases. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover the writings of H.P Lovecraft and Fantasy themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Ashlands and if you are a fan of epic and atmospheric black metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Celephais". 8 out of 10.
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