The Sullen are a solo project from Greece that plays a melodic mixture of black, doom and death metal and this is a review of his self released 2020 ep 'Rituals Of Death".
Tragic sounding keyboards start off the ep before going into a heavier musical direction while the riffs also add in a great amount of melody. Vocals are done in mostly an early death metal style along with the slower sections of the songs also showing an influence of early 90's era doom/death metal.
Grim black metal screams can also be heard in some parts of the recording while the solos and leads are done in a very melodic style. When the music speeds up a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can also be heard along with all of the musical instruments also having a very powerful sound to them.
Spoken word parts also being utilized briefly along with some clean playing is also added on one of the tracks as well as some gothic metal influences also being utilized at times and most of the music sticks to either a slow or mid tempo direction. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover death, introspection and mysticism themes.
In my opinion The Sullen is a very great sounding melodic mixture of black, doom, gothic and death metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Rituals Of Death". 8 out of 10.
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