Medieval Demon are a band from Greece that has been featured before in this zine and plays a very melodic and symphonic form of black metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Arcadian Witchcraft" which will be released in March by Hells Headbangers.
A very dark, heavy and symphonic sound starts off the album along with some melodic guitar solos and leads a few seconds later. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the music is also very heavily rooted in the 90's era and the faster sections of the songs also add in a decent amount of blast beats.
Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the riffs also add in a decent amount of melody. At times the music also gets very ritualistic sounding along with the songs also adding in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and tremolo picking can also be heard in some of the faster riffing.
A lot of the music also captures the atmosphere of the classic Greek black metal era along with the music also utilizing a great amount of keyboards. Clean playing can also be heard in certain sections of the recording as well as the spoken word parts also giving the music more of an occult atmosphere when they are utilized, one of the tracks also introduces melodic chants onto the recording. The production sounds very old school while the lyrics cover Satanism, Luciferian, Necromancy, Occultism and Witchcraft themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Medieval Demon and if you are a fan of melodic and symphonic black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Meet Her Majesty, the Black Queen" "The Grand Archon" and "Arcadian Witchcraft". 8/5 out of 10.
http://medievaldemon.bandcamp.com/album/arcadian-witchcraft
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