Pantheon are a band from Arkansas that plays a melodic mixture of black, death, thrash and groove metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Age Of Wolves" which will be released in May by Necrotic Records.
A very heavy and melodic sound starts off the album while the vocals are a mixture of death metal growls and black metal screams. The guitar solos and leads also add in a great amount of melody along with all of the musical instruments on the recording also having a very powerful sound to them.
The mid tempo sections of the songs also bring in elements of groove metal while also being heavily influenced by thrash metal at the same time. Most of the music is also very heavily rooted in the 90's era but also keeping a very modern touch and blast beats are also added into the faster sections of the songs.
Tremolo picking can also be heard in some of the faster riffing along with the songs also adding in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts as well as the solos and leads also going for more of an old school approach on later tracks and as the album progresses a brief use of clean playing can also be heard, on of the bonus songs is also a cover of black Sabbath's "Hand Of Doom". The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover darkness, death and occultism themes.
In my opinion Pantheon are a very great sounding melodic mixture of black, death, thrash and groove metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Awakening Of The Gods" "Left My Mark" "Eclipse Of The Worm Moon" and "Hand Of Doom". 8 out of 10.
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