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Defying are a band from Poland that plays a progressive mixture of ambient, post black and sludge metal and this is a review of their 2024 album "Wadera" which will be released on February 23rd by These Hands Melt.
Night sounds, whispers and spoken words which also returns on later songs start off the album before going into more of a heavier and melodic direction. When synths are utilzied they also bring in elements of ambient while some tracks also add in a small amount of clean playing and the slower sections of the songs are heavily rooted in sludge metal.
Vocals are a mixture of death metal growls and black metal screams while all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them. When the music speeds up a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can also be heard along with the solos and leads also being done in a very melodic post metal direction.
At times the music also gets very progressive sounding along with a few songs also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts as well as some of the tracks also being very long and epic in length, clear vocals can also be heard briefly. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are a concept album based upon the polish horror film "The Wolf(1983)" and the short story "Wadera(1977) written by Jerzy Gieraltowski.
In my opinion Defying are a very great sounding progressive mixture of ambient, post black and sludge metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Tempus Infaustum" "The Acquittance Shade" "Reluctant To The Grave" and "Quietus". 8 out of 10.
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