This is a review of a collaboration album between Russia's Goatpsalm a band that has been featured before in this zine and Horthodox and they team up to create a mixture of death industrial, noise, power electronics, dark ambient, dark folk and doom metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "Ash" which will be released in October as a joint effort between Aesthetic Death and Death Scream Recordings.
A very silent sound starts off the album before adding in atmospheric sounding drones and field recordings. When synths are utilized they also bring in some elements of dark ambient while the acoustic guitars are done in more of a neo-folk style and most of the tracks are also very long and epic in length.
All of the music is also instrumental while the songs also incorporate the use of a sampler at times. Folk instruments are also added into some parts of the album along with each track also sounding different from each other as well as some tracks also adding in some death industrial and power electronic orientated soundscapes, as the album progresses noises can be heard and when electric guitars are utilized they also add in the heaviness of doom metal and dark yet melodic guitar leads.
Goatpsalm and Horthodox mixes their differing approaches to dark ambient, neo-folk, doom metal, death industrial, power electronics and noise to create a very diverse and original sounding album as well as keeping everything instrumental while the production sounds very dark.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding collaboration between Goatpsalm and Horthodox and if you are a fan of death industrial, noise, power electronics, dark ambient, dark folk and doom metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Fragile Wills Of Salvation" "A House With Now Windows" and "Ash". 8 out of 10.
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