Ulfven are a band from Sweden that plays a melodic mixture of doom and death metal with some black metal influences and this is a review of their self released 2019 album "Folklore".
Nature sound along with a brief use of shamanistic humming start off the album before going into more of a heavier musical direction. Elements of doom metal can also be heard in the slower sections of the music along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody and the vocals are mostly death metal growls.
When screams are utilized they bring elements of black metal onto the recording while the acoustic guitars when they are brought into the music gives the songs more of a progressive feeling. along with the guitar solos and leads being done in a very melodic style as well as a couple of the tracks being very long and epic in length,.
All of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them as well as some tremolo picking and blast beats being added onto the recording when the music finally speeds up and as the album progresses a brief acoustic instrumental is also added onto the recording. The production sounds very professional for being a self released recording while the lyrics are a concept album based upon Scandinavian Folklore.
In my opinion Ulfven are a very great sounding melodic mixture of doom and death metal with a touch of black metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "A Mother's Betrayal" "Nocturnal Watcher" and "The Black Waters". 8 out of 10.
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