Ren Marabou And The Berserkers are a band from Ireland that plays a very melodic and aggressive form of viking/pagan black metal and this is a review of their 2024 album "Helgafjell" which was released by WormHoleDeath Records.
Viking horns start off the album before going into more of heavier and melodic direction while the vocals a re mostly death metal growls along with some black metal screams also being utilized at times. Clear pagan singing is also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording and the solos and leads also add in a lot of melody.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while some of the tracks also adding in a small amount of folk instruments, clean playing, spoken word parts and synths. A lot of the album brings in more of a modern metal style along with some old school touches as well as some of the riffing and vocals also adding in elements of thrash metal and most of the songs also stick to more of a mid tempo direction.
Ren Marabou And The Berserkers plays a musical style that takes viking, pagan, melodic black, death and thrash metal and mixes them together to create a sound of their own. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Norse Mythology, History and Paganism themes.
In my opinion Ren Marabou And The Berserkers are a very great sounding melodic mixture of viking, pagan, black, death and thrash metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Journeys Of Rig" "Curse Striker" "The Duel of Flint And Steel" and "Holy Mountain". 8 out of 10.
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