Hexenklad are a band from Ontario, Canada that has been featured before in this zine and plays a melodic mixture of black and folk metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Heathenheart" which will be released on July 23rd by CDN Records.
Melodic riffing starts off the album while clear chants can also be heard at times along with the vocals also adding in a great amount of black metal screams,. When the music speeds up a lot of tremolo picking and blast beats can also be heard and the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style.
When keyboards and orchestrations are utilized they also give the music more of a symphonic feeling. The songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with some clean pagan vocals also being added into some parts of the recording and acoustic guitars are also added on some of the tracks.
Elements of folk music are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording along with some of the songs also adding in a small amount of spoken word parts as well as some tribal style percussion also being used briefly, one of the later tracks is also an instrumental and towards the end clarinets can also be heard. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Norse Paganism and heathenism themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Hexenklad and if you are a fan of melodic black and folk metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Heathenheart" "Dark Moon In Capricorn" "A Thousand Paths To Wisdom" and "Upon The Wings of Valkyries". 8 out of 10.
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