Bryan Eckerman is a solo artist from San Antonio, Texas that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a melodic mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of his self released 2021 album "Plague Bringers" which will b e released in November.
Dark soundscapes start off the album along with some keyboards a few seconds later which also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs while the vocals also add in a great amount of grim yet high pitched sounding black metal screams along with the riffs also bring in a lot of melody and when the music speeds up a decent amount of blast beats can be heard.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style. All of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them along with some songs also adding in a small amount of clean playing.
Death metal growls can also be heard at times along with some of the tracks also being very long and epic in length. Acoustic guitars can also be heard briefly as well as one song also introducing orchestration onto the album, whispers are also utilized in certain sections of the recording.
A later song also adds in a small amount of power metal style vocals and there is also a brief use of spoken word parts on a later track. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics is a concept album based upon the aftermath of the aliens being beat by humans and their resurrections of their long dead queen and cloning an album to escape their long dead planet.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Bryan Eckerman and if you are a fan of melodic black and death emtal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Sands Of The Hourglass" "Plague Bringers" "Astral Realms" and "Tomorrow's Lie". 8/5 out of 10.
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