The Mountain King are a band from Germany that plays a mixture of black, doom, death. post metal. drone and ambient and this is a review of their self released 2024 album "Apostasyn" which will be released in February.
Avant garde style percussion starts off the album along with some post metal style melodies and clean playing a few seconds later. All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the slower sections of the songs also being in elements of doom metal.
Clear female and male vocals are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording while the harsh vocals are mostly black metal screams. Some of the tracks are also very long and epic in length along with some touches of drone and ambient also being utilized at times.
Synths can also be heard in certain sections of the album along with some death metal growls also being utilized briefly. Spoken word samples are also added on one song and when the music finally speeds up a small amount of blast beats can also be heard, half of the album is also instrumental. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Anti Religion themes,
In my opinion The Mountain King are a very great sounding mixture of black, doom, death, post metal, ambient and drone and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Apostasyn" and "Axoloti Messiah". 8 out of 10.
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