Sweden's Vanhelgd have returned with a new recording which shows the music going for a atmospheric and blackened mixture of doom and death metal and this is a review of their 2024 album "Atropis Doctrine" which will be released in July by Dark Descent Records.
A very dark and heavy sound starts off the album while the slower sections of the songs also bring in elements of doom metal. Vocals are mostly angry sounding death metal growls mixed in with a few black metal screams along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody and a couple of tracks are also long and epic in length.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very dark y et melodic style while the music also has its atmospheric moments. A lot of the songs are also very heavily rooted in the 90's era along with some blast beats and tremolo picking also being utilized when the album finally speeds up.
Synths can also be heard briefly and some of the tracks also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts as well as one song also introducing spoken word parts onto the album. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in Swedish and cover death and horror themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding album from Vanhelgd and if you a re a fan of atmospheric black, doom and death metal, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Saliga aro de dodfodda" "Atropos hymnarium" and "Gravjordsfrid". 8 out of 10.
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