Martriden - The Unsettling Dark

\r\nReleases from Candlelight always had a particular interest for me. Martriden therefore does not constitute an exception and I can say that their debut album, The Unsettling Dark, fascinated me. Martriden comes from the Montana and in 2007 they had released an EP that partly revealed what precisely the band would make in the future. Those who had heard it, they will surely know. In The Unsettling Dark the band has put all the inspiration and the faculty that allocates and thus the result is extremely interesting and qualitative. What we have here is a mixing of Death Metal and European Black Metal with a lot of influences from the scene of Scandinavia. There are not also few times where in our mind comes to Emperor, Old Man’ s Child, Enslaved but also Behemoth. The tracks are technical but not complicated and all have a dose of melody in either it is obvious or not. Important role in the album, plays also the keyboards, which fill the songs and personal reminded me very intensely those of Emperor. Some of the compositions appears that they remove a desperation, which is transmitted very easily in the listeners and forces them to want to hear the album over and over again. The speeds are basically gone up, but there are also certain mid tempo tracks in which the band shows its -no and so much extreme- character. Vocals are exclusively brutal and it appears that the singer has made amazing work, as they suit absolutely with the music. The Unsettling Dark is technical but also simple, melodic but also extreme album that will not be supposed to be absent from the collection of anyone who deals with Black/Death Metal sound.\r\n

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\r\nVasilis Mazaris \r\n

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\r\nTranslated by: Manos Maragos \r\n

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