Nov. 23, 2011 - Issue #840: Battle the world
Tales of Wanderings
Old Silver Key {recordings_bands_mg} Tales of Wanderings {/recordings_bands_mg}
Season of Mist, 2011
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If Coldplay was to become a metal band it would be Alcest. Unfortunately, because Alcest, the French metal band is technically brilliant, the lead singer just really likes to emo-up his vocals. Neige, lead singer of both Alcest and Old Silver Key, provides melancholic, melodic vocals on a new project with Ukrainian metal band Drudkh. Drudkh most recently produced the 2009 black metal album Handful of Stars, which admittedly began to integrate more progressive and post rock elements, characteristics that are amped up in this new project.Not that the album itself is amped up. With mellow guitar and soft drums it's hard to see how the album is even classified as metal. The background for Tales of Wanderings describes a "warmer and lighter" glimpse at the roots of black metal. There are some track that get back to what Drudkh does best, providing the darker atmosphere more akin to black metal, and there's no disputing the band is good at what they do, it just depends if you're up for a softer look at black metal. vueweekly.com comments: powered by Disqus
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