Bornholm are a band from Hungary that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a pagan form of black metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Apotheosis" which will be released in November by Napalm Records.
A very epic sounding keyboards orientated intro starts off the album along with a brief use of demonic sounding spoken word parts before going into a heavier musical direction. When the music speeds up a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling.
Vocals are mostly grim yet high pitched sounding black metal screams while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. A great portion of the tracks are very long and epic in length along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody and keyboards also mix in with the heavier sections of the songs at times.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style along with some clear pagan vocals also being added into some parts of the recording. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them as well as some songs also adding in a small amount of regular sounding spoken word parts, acoustic guitars are also added on some of the tracks. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Paganism, Heathenism, Philosophy and History themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Bornholm and if you are a fan of pagan black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "My Evangelium" "Spiritual Warfare" and "I Am The War God". 8 out of 10.
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