Wednesday, May 14, 2025

In The Woods... - Otra (2025)

 

The seventh album from this band from Norway.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

The band returned again three years after their very good Diversum album. An album I reviewed in # 3, February 2024. 

You never know what you get from this band. This album, named after the river that runs 250 km from the mountains in the south and ends up this band's hometown Kristiandsand, is an almost fifty minutes long album.

The music here is a blend of viking/black metal, a bit death metal, indie rock and psych rock.

Borknagar and Enslaved meets Anathema is the references here. 

The music is pretty melodic and epic. Most of the vocals is clean vocals. But there are a substantial amount of both black metal and death metal vocals here. 

Some of the music here is also viking metal. This is indeed a viking metal light album. This with some indie and psych rock.  

The result is a pretty intriguing album with a lot of interesting details and contrasts. The quality is also good throughout this album. 

Check out this album.

3 points

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