Katharos are a band from Sweden that has been featured before in this zine and plays a symphonic mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of their 2022 album "Of Lineages Long Forgotten" which will be released in May by Willowtip Records.
Marching sounds and battle horns start off the album before going into a heavier musical direction. At times the music also gets very technical sounding while the riffs also add in a great amount of melody along with the symphonic elements also being mixed in with the heavier sections of the songs.
Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the faster sections of the songs also add in a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. A lot of the riffing is also very heavily influenced by death metal and throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them along with most of the tracks also being very long and epic in length. Melodies are also added into a lot of the guitar riffing as well as the solos and leads also being done in a very melodic yet technical style, growls can also be heard in certain sections of the album. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Gnosticism, Phenomenology and Anti Christianity themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Katharos and if you are a fan of symphonic black and death metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Those Hornclad" "The World Serpent's Marrow" and "Most Dread Portent". 8 out of 10.
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