And Harmony Dies are a band from Italy that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays an avant garde form of post black metal with some elements of death, doom, thrash metal and influences from non metal genres and this is a review of their 2022 album "Ballast" which will be released on January 31st by Club Inferno Ent..
Dark soundscapes and electronic music sounds start off the album while the music also gets very experimental sounding at times which also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs. Some of the songs also capture the atmosphere of a movie soundtrack along with the pianos also taking the music into more of an avant garde direction when they are utilized.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while a great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length. Clean vocals are also added on some of the tracks along with the songs also mixing in a decent amount of grim sounding black metal screams.
When the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats and fast parts along with synths being utilized quite a bit throughout the recording. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic post metal style as well as some tracks also adding in touches of world music.
Death metal growls can also be heard in some parts of the recording as well as the slower sections of the songs also showing an influence of doom metal, some of the mid tempo sections of the album also adds in touches of thrash metal and as the recording progresses clean playing can also be heard on some tracks, one song also introduces spoken word parts onto the album and towards the end acoustic guitars are also utilized. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover issues related to the soul of a human being.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from And Harmony Dies and if you are a fan of avant garde post black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Alhena's Chief In The Golden Spiral" "Leave Now" and "How To Lighten Daily Weights". 8 out of 10.
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