Ironwood are an international band with members from Australia and the United States that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a progressive form of folk metal with elements of black metal but goes into more of an acoustic direction with this rleease and this is a review of their self released 2013 album Live At The Lovecraft".
Live audience reaction starts off the album along with some acoustic guitars a few seconds later which also brings in elements of folk music and also returns on the later tracks. Clear pagan vocals are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording and most of the tracks are also very long and epic in length.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the acoustic guitars also ad d in a good mixture of both finger picking and full chords. Elements of neo-folk can also be heard quite a bit throughout the recording and all of the music also sticks to a slower direction, spoken word parts can also be heard briefly.
On this recording Ironwood took songs off their previous releases and took all the extreme metal and progressive rock elements out and focused more on an acoustic direction. The production sounds very dark while the lyrics cover Heathen Traditions.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Ironwood and if you are a fan of pagan folk metal and neo-folk, you should check out this live album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Origin" "Love In Death" and "Infinite Sea". 8 out of 10.
https://ironwoodsound.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-lovecraft
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