Unbowed are a band from Ontario, Canada that has had music reviewed before in this zine and plays a very melodic form of blackened death metal and this is a review of their 2022 album "Colour The Soul" which will be released in May.
Acoustic guitars start off the album before going into a heavier musical direction while synths can also be heard at times. When the music speeds up a decent amount of blast beats can b e heard along with the vocals being a mixture of clean singing, growls and screams that also being in elements of black and death metal.
The riffs also add in a great amount of melody while the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style. Throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with some of the faster riffing also adding in a good amount of tremolo picking.
All of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them along with one of the tracks also introducing clean playing onto the recording and some of the songs also bring in session work from the members of Thrawsunblat, Finntroll and Mother of All as well as one of the tracks also being an instrumental. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover nature, religion and mythology themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Unbowed and if you are a fan of melodic and blackened death metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Hero Lux" "Stream Of Life Flow Of Death" "Home" and "This Mourning Shade". 8 out of 10.
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