Greece's Sørgelig have returned with a new recording which shows the music going for a raw, old school and misanthropic form of black metal and this is a review of their 2024 album "Φθορά" which will be released in October by Tragedy Productions.
High pitched black metal screams start off the album before going into a very fast and raw musical direction which also utilizes a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. All of the instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them and the music is very heavily rooted in the old school era.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while melodies can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing. A couple of the tracks are also very long and epic in length along with the songs also adding in a decent amount of angry shouts.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they also add in more of a melodic style along with some spoken word parts also being introduced into the music on one song and one song is an avant garde piano instrumental, a small amount of clean playing is also added on the closing track. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover darkness, misanthropy and misery themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding album from Sørgelig and if you are a fan of raw, old school and misanthropic black metal, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Breed Of Waster" "Those Of The Depths" and "Dreamscapes Of Lethe". 8 out of 10.
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