Sick Sad World are a band from France that plays a mixture of atmospheric black metal, sludge, hardcore and post rock and this is a review of their 2019 album "Imago Clipeata" which was released by Atypeek Music.
Spoken word samples start off the album along with some clean playing a few seconds later before going into a heavier musical direction which also introduces high pitched black emtal screams onto the recording. Elements of sludge metal can also be heard in the slower sections of the music.
The songs also mix in elements from the post genres of metal, hardcore and rock while the riffs also add in a great amount of melody. At times the music also gets very atmospheric sounding along with all of the musical instruments also having a very powerful sound to them.
Some of the riffing also adds in a decent amount of tremolo piking along with most of the tracks being very long and epic in length as well as some blast beats also being utilized when the music speeds up while a decent amount of melody can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing.
One track also introduces clear vocals into the music as well as clean playing also making a return in certain sections of the recording and as the album progresses spoken word parts are also used briefly along with one track also adding melodic shoegaze influenced guitar leads into the music and death metal growls are also added onto the closing track. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover dark themes.
In my opinion Sick Sad World are a very great sounding mixture of atmospheric black metal, sludge, hardcore and post rock and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Battlefield" and "Market". 8 out of 10.
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