Selvans are a band from Italy that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays a very progressive and folk influenced mixture of black and heavy metal and this is a review of his 2024 album "Saturnalia" which will be released on January 31st by Avantgarde Music.
Keyboards and orchestration start off the album adding in some symphonic touches which also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs at times. Choirs can also be heard briefly along with the solos and leads also bringing in more of a melodic traditional metal style and a lot of the vocals bring in more of an 80's metal style.
Black metal screams can also be heard at times while the riffs also add in a decent amount of melody. At times the music also gets very progressive sounding along with all of the musical instruments also having a very powerful sound to them and blast beats are also added into the faster sections of the album.
Tremolo picking is also added into some of the faster riffing along with the songs also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Some of the tracks are also very long and epic in length as well as some of the album also adding in elements of folk music, spoken words can also be heard briefly. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in Italian and cover folk and horror tales from their home country.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Selvans and if you are a fan of progressive and folk influenced black and heavy metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Il mio maleficio v'incalzera!" and "Fonte dei diavoli". 8 out of 10.
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