Invictus are a band from Belgium that plays a melodic mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of their 2024 album "Despair" which will be released in October as a joint effort between Genet Records. Bound By Modern Age, In my Heart Empire and x24x Edgewear.
A very fast sound starts off the album along with a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. Vocals are a mixture of death metal growls and black metal screams while the riffs also add in a lot of melody as well as the music also adding in a lot of Gothenburg influences without sounding like a copy of that area.
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 when they are utilized on a couple of tracks and one song also adds in a brief use of acoustic guitars, some of the mid tempo sections of the tracks also show an influence of hardcore.
Invictus plays a musical style that takes the melodic forms of black and death metal and mixes them together to create a sound of their own. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover hypocrisy, social indifference and inhumanity of mankind.
In my opinion Invictus are a very great sounding melodic mixture of black and death metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Inhumane Shells" "Wolves" "Despair" and "Screams of An Enslaved Choir". 8 out of 10.
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