Label: Apparitia Recordings
Black metal does not always aim to convey malice, brutality and sonic evil, as is the Hakuja's case, a Japanese one-man band, which in the now distant 2007 gave birth to "Legacy". This album transmits an indefinable quantity of emotions, touching melancholy shades, expression of great compositional pathos.
Songs with an average sustained rhythm, influenced by the most primitive vein of the genre with clear references to Burzum and Darkthrone; rather linear guitar riffs, with not excessively distorted sound, increase in intensity making an excellent progression of the songs; simple programmed drums, with quite natural sounds, the bass phrases move and characterize the entire rhythm sector, it is, therefore, the most expressive instrument in this work together with Hakuja's scream, heartbreaking and desperate, in a depressive style.
The lean and dry sound refers to the times of the great classics when the founding bands of Black Metal took their first steps in an underground scene still not as saturated as today. Although the homemade recording of this release highlights some flaws, it does not affect the performance of the songs.
The album ends with an instrumental piece with a predominantly slow and dreamy cadence: "Rasen"; in conclusion, "Legacy" is a work qualitatively in the norm, but which emerges for its honesty and concreteness.
