Frostmoon Eclipse - Gathering the Dark
This album, their debut for ISO666, is their second overall. I get the feeling that this band listens to a lot of Hades Almighty as the songs kind have that feeling. The song structures are similar to Hades Almighty and their use of acoustic guitar and keyboard parts to make their songs more interesting calls that band to mind when I listen to them. The use of Death growls mixed in with the raspy Black Metal shrieks adds to the musical diversity which, when added to the acoustics, makes for a more interesting listen. There are only two major gripes I had with this album and they were that 1. The production isn’t the best, as the guitars are too low and too thin, something that hurts when they bump up the speed; and 2. Even though this is their second album, the songs don’t really show all that much maturity. There are parts that don’t flow well and transitions that aren’t very good - things that could have been worked out in rehearsal but weren’t. The good news is that their song structure problems don’t pop up too often and the bulk of this album is only marred by the drumming drowning out the guitars. I get the feeling that Frostmoon Eclipse works best in the mid-paced realms of speed, and when they go fast, things just get generic and their thin guitar sound hurts them more.
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