Orquilux are a band from Italy that has recently been featured in this zine and on this recording plays a symphonic and melodic mixture of black and folk metal and this is a review of their self released 2019 album "The Desire To Vanish Myself".
A very dark sounding prologue starts off the album while also introducing stringed instruments and synths onto the recording which also mixes in with the heavier sections of the music. Vocals bring in a mixture of black metal screams and death metal growls as well as some clean vocals also being utilized at times.
Elements of doom metal can also be heard in the slower sections of the songs while the acoustic guitars when they are utilized show an influence of folk music. Flutes and Celtic instruments can also be heard at times as well as the music also having its progressive moments and symphonic sounds are also mixed into some of the heavier sections of the recording.
When the music speeds up on a couple of songs a small amount of blast beats can also be heard but keeping the focus more on a slow or mid tempo style along with some of the tracks being instrumentals. The production sounds very dark and heavy while the lyrics cover sorrow, love, anger, nostalgia and happiness themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Orquilux and if you are a fan of symphonic, melodic and progressive black and folk metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "A Strange Feeling" "Trying To Reach" and "The Bell Tower". 8 out of 10.
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This recording sound as garbage! There' s no consistency between the tracks, no climax, no real instruments (the string section, flute, and the last two songs are only sound samples) the mixing is awful (clean vocals are so loud and yet you can't hear the bass guitar). This album also costs 6 euros in digital download, no jewel case! For this price, you can buy a much higher quality album. For me is 2 out of 10
ReplyDeleteIt's not the best recording, it's true, but it's not even garbage! i don't see where you say that the tracks have no climax and no real instruments, yes there is some library vst of orchestra and the drum is probably digital too, but that are doesn't mean it's not "music", library vst are used in every (excluding somes) record, couse you can't find orchestra's everywhere to work with your projects, and also it's used to make videogames/film music! so if you don't know they, got structured hand by hand! (even the greatest film music composers uses them!. just an example: Hans Zimmers, Johann johann johannsson, Ramin Djawadi, ecc)((in the 10th song, the half of the song is played without a orchestra/piano library,and only a guitar and some synths so you're wrong in here, yes they are samples but note by note recording (so it's like you are playing an instruments but with different sounds ,if you play a piano you can make great things with that!). Yes the mix is not good, it's true! i liked many ideas of this debut album and some songs(and the bass guitar i can hear it) yea this album cost 6 euros, it's not a really expensive price neither a cheap price, I listened to worse albums, with absurd prices, i found that this guys use really much the streaming, so you don't needs to pay for listen it! of course is subjective the way you listen, but if i need to say in a objective way is a decent album to listen! (of course it's just that i want to express my opinion about!)
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