Wolvenguard are a band from Texas that plays a primal and archaic form of black metal which is also heavily influenced by melodic death metal and this is a review of their self released 2017 ep "Elemental Reclamation" which will be released in June.
A very heavy and melodic sound starts off the album along with some grim black metal screams a few seconds ;after while death metal growls are also used at times and the solos and leads also use a great amount of melody and when the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats can be heard.
All of the musical instruments on the recording have a very powerful sound to them and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and clean singing is also used at times and all of the music sticks to a heavy style while also mixing in a great amount of Swedish influences.
Wolvenguard plays a musical style that takes the melodic styles of black and death metal and mixes them together to create their own style of primal archaic extreme metal, the production sounds very professional for being a self released recording while the lyrics cover dark themes.
In my opinion Wolvenguard are a very great sounding melodic black/death metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Formless Aeons". 8 out of 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Y5f0V4Deo