Alukta are a duo from France that plays a ritualistic mixture of black and doom metal and this is a review of their 2025 album "Merok" which will be released in May by Transcendence.
A very slow, dark and heavy doom metal sound starts off the album along with some ethnic style instruments and chants a few seconds later. Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing while all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them and the recording also has its ritualistic moments.
Clear male and female vocals can also be heard at times while the solos and leads are also done in a very dark yet melodic style. Some of the tracks are also very long and epic in length along with the harsh vocals being mostly grim black metal screams as well as some tracks also adding in a small amount of clean playing and the whole album also sticks to a slower direction.
Alukta plays a musical style that takes black and doom metal and mixes it with tribal music to create a sound of their own. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover the funeral rites of the Tonga people, cults and death themes.
In my opinion Alukta are a very great sounding ritualistic mixture of black and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this duo. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Matampu" and "Exuvia". 8 out of 10.
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