The Blessing Way are a solo project from Ireland that plays a symphonic form of black metal and this is a review of his self released 2022 album "Erik's Lament" which will be released on Halloween.
Symphonic elements start off the album and also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs at times. When the music speeds up a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast b eats can b e heard while the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style and the vocals are a mixture of black metal screams and death metal growls.
Operatic male and female vocals can also be heard at times while the riffs also add in a decent amount of melody. Classical guitars can also be heard on a few tracks along with all of the musical instruments on the recording also having a very powerful sound to them and spoken word parts can also be heard on a couple of songs.
Touches of classical and folk music can also be heard at times along with the album also adding in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts as well as the music also being very heavily rooted in the 90's era, one song is also an instrumental and a couple of the tracks are also very long and epic in length and there is also a small amount of session work from Snowy Shaw. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover horror and gothic tales.
In my opinion The Blessing Way are a very great sounding symphonic black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Hanging Of Joseph Buquet" "Terror In The Graveyard" "Delusions Of An Opium Eater" and "Erik's Lament". 8 out of 10.
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