Upon Shadows are a duo originally from Uruguay but now resides in Finland and plays a mixture of black, dark, gothic metal and ambient and this is a review of their 2019 album "Modern Obscurantism" which was released by Ground Media Group.
A very dark and avant garde style intro starts off the album before going into more of a dark and heavier musical direction. Gothic style keyboards are also a very huge part of the recording while the lyrics are mostyl high pitched black metal screams along with some spoken word parts are also utilized at times.
When the music speeds up a decent amount of blast beats can be heard while clean vocals can also be heard at times. Throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with the music also being very heavily rooted in the mid 90's era.
The songs also mix in a great amount of dark metal elements along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody. The keyboards also add in touches of ambient into some parts of the recording as well as all of the musical instruments also having a very powerful sound to them. The production sounds very old school while the lyrics cover the parallelism between the obscurantism of the Middle Ages and the new forms of censorship and control.
In my opinion Upon Shadows are a very great sounding mixture of black, dark, gothic metal and ambient and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this duo. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Vanity's Bonfire" "Dogma The Infinity Of Fire" "Illusion Of Freedom" and "Out Of The Blue Comes The New Plague". 8 out of 10.
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