Torii are a solo project from Arkansas that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a mixture of post black, sludge, doom and death metal and this is a review of his self released and self titled 2021 album.
Atmospheric sounding synths and dark yet melodic riffing starts off the album while the slower sections of the songs also add in the heaviness of sludge and doom metal. Vocals are mostly black metal screams along with some death metal growls also being utilized at times and some of the tracks are also very long and epic in length.
Acoustic guitars and stringed instruments can also be heard on a couple of tracks while some of the riffing also shows an influence of post metal. Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing along with the solos and leads also being done in a very melodic style as well as a couple of the tracks also being instrumentals, spoken word parts can also be heard briefly and all of the music sticks to either a slow or mid tempo musical direction and synths also make a return on some of the later tracks.
On this recording Torii takes the atmospheric style of post black metal and mixes it with sludge, doom and death metal to create a very dark sounding album. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover apocalyptic and mythological themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Torii and if you are a fan of black, sludge, doom, death and post metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Synthetic Dust" "Grey Expanse" and "Torii". 8 out of 10.
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