Mortem Solis are a solo project from Brazil that plays a very raw and old school form of black metal and this is a review of her self released 2025 album "Hermetic".
A very dark yet heavy sound starts off the album while you can also hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the recording. Vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams mixed in with a small amount of spoken words along with the music also being heavily rooted in the 90's era of the genre.
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. Throughout the album you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with one track also adding in a brief use of clean playing, gothic and pagan metal elements are also utilized at times.
A couple of songs also adding in a small amount of synths along with some spoken words also being used briefly, when guitar solos and leads are introduced they are also done in a very melodic style and the closing track is an Empyrium cover. The production sounds very raw and old school while the lyrics are written in a mixture of Portuguese and English and is a concept album based upon Hermeticism, Existentialism, Nihilism and Poetic Melancholy.
In my opinion Mortem Solis are a very great sounding raw and old school black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "O Eterno Se Esvai..." and "Ode To melancholy". 8 out of 10.
https://mortemsolis.bandcamp.com/album/hermetic-2
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