Surprise was the main feeling that has covered me after I gave a few hearings to this CD, because for a reason still unexplained to me I found myself stuck into what I have just heard, asking for more. It could be mainly due to the atmospheric and depressive in a sweet way music I found trapped in there, music that with no doubt attracted me deeply.

It is basically the ambient keyboard themes that create the main basis of the music in here. The guitar themes in slow and mid tempos are presented under post Black Metal structures building beautiful esoteric melodies that will drive the listener to a private apocalypse after hearings and hearings of this album, an apocalypse that could be the bloom of the melancholic feelings that someone hides deep inside, but this depend on you.

This is music to be heard at those strange hours of the night when we have dived into its heart, approaching slowly the dawn.. still not full night… still not full dawn… if you understand my point. After all it was a perfect soundtrack for me during those strange hours.

Music is the key point in here, although the vocals are sound frozen enough, carrying a special way of semi whispering the lyrics, they culd not fit better to the final result.

If you once enjoyed the melancholic ambience of Buruzm’s albums then you will feel like home in here cause the music of Raventale is even more melodic, more “warm” to listener’s ears –no matter the frozen vocals haha- and carries less bitterness than Varg’s art. But still we can talk about a trip to melancholy that still carries enough Doom features under the slow guitar parts and the gloomy atmosphere of the music. To sum things up, here we got a mixture of Black Metal and Doom Metal, with some Epic references presented in a special way.

Well it seems that Astaroth the main man behind this band from Ukraine have managed to offer me a nice trip to sweet darkness. Hope the same for you as well.



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Review by: Countraven