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Keen Of The Crow - Hyborea
Release: 2007Label: Grau Records
By: Anders
Posted: Apr 9, 2007
This band, which may be disbanded, it seems like the members/ex-members really can't decide the status of the band right now, though a sure thing is that main-songwriter Seth Arthur won't continue and it seems like it was his band in the first place, but who knows how it'll end, so let’s instead focus on the band's newly released debut full length "Hyborea".
The band has its base in doom metal, the more traditional kind, with a strong European influence, slow atmospheric spheres, with a great melodic approach and intriguing song structures. Once in a while droning early Celtic Frost-like elements steps in and gives the music a scent of early and haunting death and black metal, a very varied and exciting musical composition, which is present in most of the songs.
Vocally the effort is quite alternated as well, we have all from a haunted and tortured scream, to a more traditional growl and a fragile clean vocal and last but not least an evil and harsh scream from the nether regions of this world. The vocals are always fitting into the shifting atmospheres Keen Of The Crow presents and have a big part of painting a complete picture.
If you like your metal heavy and doomy, though are looking for a bit more variation than most traditional doom bands offer, then you should give Keen Of The Crow a spin, they don't offer that much clean vocal, as traditional doom usually do, though their way of composing their music, is in that vein, they just spice it heavily up with much much darker and heavier pieces and elements of the most extreme and haunting metal, still performed heavy as fuck and slower than death, a great album and a great start for a band that we most likely won't hear more from, too bad, as they are hitting something very right with "Hyborea".
The band has its base in doom metal, the more traditional kind, with a strong European influence, slow atmospheric spheres, with a great melodic approach and intriguing song structures. Once in a while droning early Celtic Frost-like elements steps in and gives the music a scent of early and haunting death and black metal, a very varied and exciting musical composition, which is present in most of the songs.
Vocally the effort is quite alternated as well, we have all from a haunted and tortured scream, to a more traditional growl and a fragile clean vocal and last but not least an evil and harsh scream from the nether regions of this world. The vocals are always fitting into the shifting atmospheres Keen Of The Crow presents and have a big part of painting a complete picture.
If you like your metal heavy and doomy, though are looking for a bit more variation than most traditional doom bands offer, then you should give Keen Of The Crow a spin, they don't offer that much clean vocal, as traditional doom usually do, though their way of composing their music, is in that vein, they just spice it heavily up with much much darker and heavier pieces and elements of the most extreme and haunting metal, still performed heavy as fuck and slower than death, a great album and a great start for a band that we most likely won't hear more from, too bad, as they are hitting something very right with "Hyborea".
Rating: 8/10
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