Germany's Suffering Souls has returned with a new recording which continues the symphonic style of black metal from previous releases and this is a review of their 2024 album "An Iconic Taste Of Demise" which will be released in may by Satanath and Fetzner Death Records.
A very dark, melodic and heavy sound starts off the album along with some symphonic elements and clear vocals a few seconds later. When the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats can also be heard while the vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams and a lot of the music is also heavily rooted in the mid 90's era.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style. Tremolo picking can also be heard in some of the faster riffing along with one track also introducing spoken word parts and female vocals into the music.
Clear male vocals can also be heard on some of the tracks along with one song also adding in a brief use of clean playing, back up shouts can also be heard briefly as well as a couple of songs also being very long and epic in length and they also bring in a couple of instrumentals. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Occultism, Death and Misanthropy themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Suffering Souls and if you are a fan of symphonic black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Soul Devourer" "A Touch of Evil Kindness" and "Cruelty in Love And Fear". 8 out of 10.
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