Soothsayer are a band form Ireland that has had music reviewed before in this zine and plays an atmospheric mixture of black, sludge and doom metal and this is a review of their live 2021 album "Live In Malta" which was released by Cursed Monk Records.
Live audience and electronic music sounds start off the album along with a brief use of spoken word parts, Ritualistic soundscapes are also utilized briefly while clean playing and atmospheric sounds can also be heard in some parts of the recording and clean vocals are also utilized in certain sections of the album.
All of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while the music also has its experimental moments. When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are done in a very distorted yet melodic style along with the vocals also brining in a great amount of high pitched black metal screams as well as a good amount of shouts.
All of the musical instruments on the recording have a very powerful sound to them along with the slower sections of the songs also bringing in the heaviness of sludge and doom metal as well as some death metal growls also being utilized at times and when the music finally speeds up a small amount of blast beats can also be heard. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover frustration, rage and despair themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Soothsayer and if you are a fan of atmospheric black, sludge and doom metal, you should check out this live album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Outer Fringe" and "Lunar Correspondence". 8 out of 10.
Bandcamp: https://cursedmonk.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-malta
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