Argenthorns are a solo project from Finland that plays a symphonic form of black metal and this is a review of his 2023 album "The Ravening" which was released by Avantgarde Music.
An avantgarde and classical music orientated sounding intro starts off the album while also introducing symphonic style keyboards which also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs. Spoken word parts can also be heard on some of the tracks along with the vocals being mostly high pitched black metal screams.
Melodies are also added into a lot of the guitar riffing while the recording is also very heavily rooted in the mid 90's era. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard along with the songs also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and a couple of the tracks are also very long and epic in length.
Argenthorns plays a style of black metal that is very symphonic sounding in the mid 90's tradition. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Occultism and Epic Dark Fantasy themes.
In my opinion Argenthorns are a very great sounding symphonic black metal solo project and f you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "In The Hoary Shadows Of the Blighted gardens" and "Wings Of Psychomachia". 8 out of 10.
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