Ghost Hollow are a band from Arkansas that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a mixture of black, sludge, doom, death metal and hardcore and this is a review of their self released 2025 album "Examinations Of The Heart" which will be released in February.
A very distorted sound starts off the album before going into a very fast and heavy direction which also utilizes a great amount of blast beats and tremolo picking. Vocals are a mixture of death metal growls and black metal screams while the slower sections of the songs also bring in elements of doom and sludge metal.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Clean playing can also be heard in certain parts of the album along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody, at times the music also gets very atmospheric sounding as well as the mid tempo sections also adding in touches of hardcore.
On this recording Ghost Hallow takes black, sludge, doom, death metal and hardcore and mixes them together to create a very diverse album. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover anguish, introspection and catharsis.
In my opinion this is another great sounding album from Ghost Hollow and if you are a fan of black, sludge, doom, death metal and hardcore, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Formless Apparitions" "Lay Down The Sword" and "Examinations Of The Heart". 8 out of 10.
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