This is a review of a collaboration ep between U.S.A's Exiled Hope and United Kingdom's Steel Forge who team up together and bring out a melodic and symphonic mixture of black, doom, death, power and folk metal and this is a review of their self released ep "Realm of the Exiled" which will be released in 2025.
A very heavy, melodic and symphonic sound starts off the ep while you can also hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the recording. Harsh vocals are a mixture of black metal screams and death metal growls along with the slower sections of the songs also bringing in elements of doom metal.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style while the clean sections are very heavily rooted in folk music. One of the songs also introduce clear vocals onto the recording that are more rooted in power and gothic metal as well as one track also being very long and epic in length, the whole ep sticks to either a slow or mid tempo direction.
Exiled Hope and Steel Forge mix their two different styles to create something very heavy, melodic, symphonic and epic sounding. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover dark fantasy themes.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding collaboration between Exiled Hope and Steel Forge and if you are a fan of melodic and symphonic black, doom, death, gothic, power and folk metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "A Light In the Darkness" and "Beyond The Veil". 8 out of 10.
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