Today’s review is of Basque Black Metal band Velka’s debut album.
This release offers relentless, chaotic and excruciating Black Metal delivered with fury and combined with certain elements that may often make it more accurate to deem the release Blackened Death Metal, though always leaning towards the blackened side with darkness and desperation as main goals to transmit.
Despite the cold and harsh riffs blended with bits of elegance that always end up crushed beneath another violent blast, the excessive song lengths of every track combined with a vocal performance that needs some extra personality make the listener slightly bored through repetition. Perhaps the same album would’ve been more enjoyable with almost half the song lengths, and if the same essence of the band is channelled into more straightforward pieces in the future it will surely produce interesting results. My personal highlights are “Freezing Hell Isolation” and “The Imposed Punishment”.
I recommend this album to fans of Black Metal and Blackened Death Metal. My rating is of 8/10.
VARG THE MIGHTY
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