Raw,
gritty, Black Metal, got your attention? Well then, let me be the first to
welcome you to “Ealdfaeder” the new album from EOHUM. This is an album full of
Folk Metal sounds and ‘90s Black Metal speed, it has found a way to take
something old and make it feel new, but that isn’t always a good thing.
The
album opens with “Eurocide,” which has the Folk sounds to it it’s fast paced
but doesn’t exactly have and hooks. The song demands your attention solely with
speed and blasts, which some people aren’t interested in non-stop, but the
intro track doesn’t take too long to pass before the album truly begins.
“Unmasking A World of Deceit” is the true highlight of this record because
where Black Metal has its problems, this song makes amends. Black metal is known
for being raw to the point where instrumentals aren’t exactly distinguishable,
bass is almost never audible in it, but in this song the bass is right out in
the open almost entirely and its great. The melodic tone the bass adds to the
song and its obvious it adds to the song is quite unique, not the mention the
song itself is written interestingly. This song as well as the next, “The
Apathetic Plague,” doesn’t fear to slow down and change paces multiple times
throughout their course. A big reason this is a great choice is it keeps your
attention, the reason a song becomes boring is its predictable, you can tell
what’s coming quicker than the band wrote it. Black Metal tends to make slower
sections insanely heavy s well, meaning these songs can get any Metal fan’s
head banging.
While
the songs on this album are great, they use good song writing techniques to
make them great, no fancy tricks as there’s no “incredible guitar solos” on
this album and the vocals aren’t for everyone as they’re older style Black
Metal “screams” (basically just higher pitch growls). If you like epic sounding
Black Metal, or just Black Metal as a whole, you may want to check out EOHUM’s
“Ealdfaeder” for your forest adventuring needs.
85/100
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