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Witches Hollow are a solo project form Finland that plays a melodic mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of his 2023 album "Grimoire" which was released by iron, Blood & Death Corporation.
A very dark, heavy and melodic sound starts off the album while the vocals are a mixture of high pitched black metal screams and death metal growls. Symphonic elements are also added on some of the tracks along with the songs also adding in a lot of 90's influences and blast beats are also added in the faster sections of the recording.
When guitar solos and leads are utilized they are also done in a very melodic style while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Tremolo picking can also be heard in some of the faster riffing along with some of the tracks also being very long and epic in length.
Acoustic guitars and stringed instruments can also be heard on a few tracks along with one song also adding in a brief use of spoken word parts as well as all of the musical instruments on the recording also having a very powerful sound to them, ritualistic chants can also be heard briefly. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are a concept album based upon Witchcraft, Horror and Occultism themes.
In my opinion Witches Hollow are a very great sounding melodic mixture of black and death metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Witch And The Devil Spoke" "The Witch And The Midnights Hour" and "The Witch And Night Eternal". 8/5 out of 10.
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