Genre: Black Metal
Label: Perkun Records
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Adragard, a trio from Italy, reaches its third milestone with this "Through Funeral Shadows", full-length of almost 50 minutes, during which we are overwhelmed by a primordial Black Metal, thanks to a sound that brings us back in time by thirty years. Born in the golden years of the genre, the band draws inspiration from the bands that in that period put to music the anger and the subversive ferocity of those who had something to shout to the world, like, Isengard and Gorgoroth: speeds are never sustained, with rare exceptions, all in favour of evil and melancholy atmosphere. The first song is "Father Serpent" with an acoustic guitar arpeggio that shortly after gives way to rot and wickedness of the past. "Eucharistic Alkaloid Visions", the next track as well as the most successful of the album in the opinion of the writer, with its epic riffs and acid screaming as opposed to a clean singing with folkloristic references, drags us into the heart of the work. On several occasions, acoustic guitar arpeggios appear that break the sound of the electric guitars, giving a characteristic touch to the compositions that in themselves are rather classic, but pleasant, as in "Curse Hate And Damnation" or "A Miserable Winter" or again in "Awaiting Total Armageddon". "In Disharmonic Darkness", another important track, accompanies the closing of the album marked by "L 'Eterno Crepuscolo Della Morte", an atmospheric and ghostly song, almost dark-ambient, Lord Adragard recites a text in the mother tongue with chilling wickedness. Also for the drums and the bass, the choice of the raw sound certainly refers to the dawn of Black Metal, when the executive precision and the fullness of sound took a back seat to pure instinct. The final Bonus Track "Freezing Moon" is the band's tribute to the historic Mayhem: it crowns a genuine album, in which the imperfect production is a point in favour and helps to create a distant atmosphere, now unusual given the hyper-accurate standards of the most recent productions, incredibly impressive and overwhelming! Andrea B.
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