Winter Blood are a band from Virginia that plays a very aggressive and melodic form of black metal and this is a review of their self released 2025 album "Only Dust Remains".
Melodic guitar solos and leads start off the album while some of the songs also add in a small amount of clean playing. Melodies are also added into a lot of the guitar riffing along with some of t he tracks also being very long and epic in length and when the music speeds up a lot of blast b eats can be heard.
When tremolo picking is added into the fast riffing they also give the music more of a raw feeling while the vocals are mostly grim yet high pitched sounding black metal screams mixed in with a few growls. Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
Clear singing can also be heard briefly along with some of the tracks also adding in a small amount of synths A lot of the album is also very heavily influenced by the old school eta of the genre as well as some of the recording also mixing in elements of classical music. The production sounds very raw and heavy while the lyrics cover darkness and doom themes.
In my opinion Winter Blood are a very great sounding aggressive and melodic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Eden's Pale" "Funereal Art" "Reign" and "Viking Blood". 8 out of 10.
https://winterbloodmusic.bandcamp.com/album/only-dust-remains
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