Vacua are a band from Italy that plays a very raw, depressive and medieval form of black metal and this is a review of their 2025 album "Mater" which will be released in November by Hidden Marly Production.
A very fast and raw sound starts off the album along with a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the riffs also add in a great amount of melody and the vocals are mostly high pitched yet depressive sounding black metal screams.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while clean playing can also be heard on a couple of tracks. At times the music also gets very medieval sounding along with the solos and leads also being done in a very melodic style, one track also adds in a brief use of whispered vocals and when synths are used briefly they also add in a touch of dungeon synth and a couple of songs are also long and epic in length.
Vacua plays a style of black metal that is very raw, depressive and medieval sounding. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics are written in their native tongue and cover Mother Earth, nature and Southern Italian Witchcraft and Folklore.
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