Empyrium are a duo form Germany that plays a mixture of neo folk and melodic black metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Uber den Sternen" which will be released on February 26th by Prophecy Productions.
Acoustic guitars start off the album and also bring in elements of neo folk while stringed instruments are also a very huge part of the recording. Clean pagan vocals are also utilized quite a bit throughout the tracks and the songs also mix the folk music elements into the heavier sections of the songs.
A great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while spoken word parts and whispers can also be heard at times. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style along with high pitched black metal screams also being a very huge part of the heavier side of t he recording.
Some of the slower riffing also shows an influence of doom metal along with the riffs also adding in a great amount of melody as well as some tracks also adding in some keyboards, a couple of the songs are also instrumentals and all of the music sticks to either a slow or mid tempo direction. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in a mixture of English and German and cover Germanic Romanticism, Poetry and Folklore themes.
In my opinion Empyrium are a very great sounding mixture of melodic black, doom metal and neo folk and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this duo. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "A Lucid Tower Beckons On the Hills Afar" "The Wild Swans" and "Uber den Sternen". 8 out of 10.
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