Ancient Altar are a band from Los Angeles, California that plays a mixture of doom metal, sludge and heavy rock and this is a review of their self released 2014 ep which will be released in July by Midnite Collective.
Distorted sounds start off the ep along with some reverb which leads up to some really heavy guitar which leads to a heavy sludge/doom metal sound along with some high pitched screams and a small amount of spoken word parts and you can also hear a decent amount of melody being mixed in with the bands heavy sound.
When guitar solos and leads are added into the music they bring in elements of 70's rock and you can also hear the bass guitars in the background and on the following tracks clean playing can be heard in certain sections of the recording and the band also brings in a couple of songs that are very long and epic in length and the y also bring in a few growls that gives the music a more death metal feeling.
Ancient Altar play a very dark and heavy style that takes the heaviness of doom and sludge metal and the y mix it in with the melody of 70's and stoner rock to create a sound of their own, the productions sounds very dark and heavy while the lyrics cover arcane philosophy.
In my opinion Ancient Altar are a very great sounding mixture of doom metal, sludge and heavy rock and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Ek Balam" and "Pulled Out". 8 out of 10.
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