Ashtoreth is a solo project from Belgium that plays a shamanistic and ritualistic mixture of ambient, drone and doom metal and this is a review of his 2019 album "Rites I&II" which will be released in February by Cyclic Law.
Heavy doom metal guitar riffing starts off the album along with some ritualistic chants while both of the tracks are very long and epic in length. A great amount of guitar orientated drones can also be heard quite a bit throughout the recording as well as some heavy amp distortion.
Dark ambient soundscapes can also be heard quite a bit throughout the recording and also give both of the tracks more atmosphere. Clean guitars are also utilized in some parts of the music as well as some nature orientated field recordings also being utilized briefly towards the end of the first track.
Throughout both of these tracks the music also brings in a great amount of diversity as well as bringing in a very shamanistic sounding atmosphere at times as well as being very meditative and minimal in its approach and taking on a journey through nature. Most of the music is instrumental and the production sounds very dark.
In my opinion Ashtoreth is a very great sounding shamanistic and ritualistic mixture of ambient, drone and doom metal and if you are a fan f those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Rite I". 8 out of 10.
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