Briargh are a solo project from Spain that has had music reviewed before in this zine and plays a very epic and pagan form of black metal and this is a review of his 2024 album "Civervo" which will be released in December as a joint effort between Morbid Shrine Productions and Vertabrae.
Dark soundscapes and folk instruments start off the album which also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs at times. 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 and the vocals are mostly grim sounding black emtal screams.
Melodies are also added into a lot of the guitar riffing while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style along with some of the vocals also adding in a more rough singing approach at times.
Clean playing, acoustic guitars and keyboards can also be heard in certain sections of the recording along with the music also having its atmospheric moments and all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them, female vocals can also be heard briefly and one song also introduces spoken word parts onto the album. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Cantabria and Celtic Paganism.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Briargh and if you are a fan of epic pagan black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Galeuskan" "War Wolves Of Kantaber" and "The Unsacred Enigma". 8 out of 10.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Briargh/
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