Graufar are a band from Austria that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a melodic mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of their self released 2026 album "Via Necropolis" which will be released in March.
Clean playing starts off the album before going into more of a heavier and melodic direction while the vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast b eats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while death metal growls are also used at times. Throughout the album you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with some songs also adding in a small amount of clean playing.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style along with a couple of tracks are also long and epic in length and one song also adds in a brief use of spoken words. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover social criticism, the dark side of human nature, transience and death.
In my opinion this is another great sounding album from Graufar and if you are a fan of aggressive and melodic black and death metal, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Blizzard & Blaze" "Via Necropolis" and "Foltertrog". 8 out of 10.
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