Svarthart are a band from Belgium that has been featured before in this zine and plays an old school mixture of doom and death metal and this is a review of their self released 2018 album "Awaiting The Return".
Nature orientated soundscapes start off the album and after awhile clean playing is added onto the recording which also leads up to a heavier doom metal direction along with the guitar solos being done in a very dark yet melodic style as well as some of the tracks being long and epic in length.
Vocals are mostly death metal growls while the music is very heavily rooted in the 90's style along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of dark sounding melodies as well as all of the musical instruments having a very powerful sound to them, clean playing also makes a return on some of the later tracks and as the album progresses a synth orientated instrumental is added onto the recording before returning back to a heavier direction on the following tracks and all of the music sticks to either a slow or mid tempo direction and spoken word parts are also added onto the closing track.
On this recording Svarthart remains true to their 90's influenced style of doom/death metal, the production sounds very old school while the lyrics cover death, grief, loneliness and the human mind themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Svarthart and if you are a fan of old school doom/death metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Waiting" "Harbringer" and "Dawning". 8 out of 10.
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