Lotus Thief are a band from San Francisco, California that plays a mixture of black. doom metal, avant garde, ambient and post rock and this is a review of their album "Oresteia" which will be released in 2020 by Prophecy Productions.
Avant garde soundscapes start off the album along with some spoken word parts a few seconds later. Clean playing can also be heard in some parts of the music along with the vocals bringing in a mixture of clean vocals and black emtal screams and the slower sections of the songs also add in some elements of doom metal.
A great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while the solos and leads are done in a very dark and melodic style. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them as well as the keyboards also giving the songs more of an avant garde feeling when they are utilized.
Touches of ambient are also added into some parts of the recording along with some songs also adding in influences of post rock, they also being in a couple of instrumentals and when the music finally speeds up a small amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can also be heard. Whispered vocals can also be heard briefly and a later song also introduces acoustic guitars onto the recording. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are based upon the writings of Aeschylus and Greek Mythology.
In my opinion Lotus Thief are a very great sounding mixture of black, doom metal, avant garde, ambient and post rock and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Agamemnon" 'The Furies" and "Sister In Silence". 8 out of 10.
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