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Raventale - Mortal Aspirations. Full-length on Bad Mood Man Music.
This is the third full-length release from this Ukrainian one-man band. This is my first encounter with Raventale so I can not compare the latest material to their older material, but I am told that Raventale started out as an Pagan/Black Metal band in the vein of countrymen Drudkh. Well this album is quite far from that particular genre. The album is a strange combination of Doom Metal and Black Metal, with a quite well defined parts. What I mean that is that the slower parts feels very Doom Metal and the faster passages (very few of those) and the mid-paced passages feels very Black Metal. Black Metal with hints of Death Metal. Most of the time, there are occasion when the slower, Doomier passages gets a more Black Metal feeling to it, but that is about it. this gives the album a very disjointed feeling and appearance, as if Astaroth could not really decide what he wanted to do, a straight Black Metal song or a straight Doom Metal song, so he just mixed all of his at random. And they keyboards take up way to much of the sound and they feel very un-Metal. Some might like this album, I however do not. |