Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Heathendom/Self Titled/Metal On Metal Records/2010 LP Re-Issue Review


  Heathendom  are  a  band  from  Greece  that  plays  a  mixture  of  traditional  doom  and  power  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  titled  2005  demo  which  was  re-issued  on  vinyl  by  Metal  On  Metal  Records.

  Drums  are  all  slow  to  mid  paced  playing  with  no  fast  drumming  or  blast  beats  being  present  on t his recording,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a  very  strong  and  powerful  sounding  with  heavy  doom  riffing  that  dominates  throughout  the  recording,  as  for  the  keyboards  they  are  only  used  on  the  instrumental  and  the  last  song  and  they  bring  a  dark  sound  to  the  music.

  Rhythm  guitars  are  all  slow  to  mid  paced  riffs  that  combine  traditional  doom  with  power  metal  along  with  a  great  amount  of  dark  sounding  melodies  being  thrown  into  the  riffing  at  times  as  well  as  a  brief  use  of  soft  and  clean  playing,  while  the  lead  guitars a re  very  melodic  sounding  doom/power  metal  guitar  solos  and  leads,  as  for  the  classical  guitars  which  are  only  used  on t he  last  song  they  use  finger  picking  and  full  chords  to  enhance  the  darkness  that  is  coming  out  of  the  music..

  Vocals  range  from  high  pitched  power  metal  singing  with  some  deeper  demonic  vocals  being  utilized  at  times  as  well  as  a  brief  use  of  spoken  word  parts  and  female  vocals,  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  and  anti  religion  themes,  as  for t he  production  it h as  a  very  strong,  powerful,  heavy  and  professional  sound  where  you  can  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on t his  recording  with  some  of  the  songs  being  long  and  epic  in  length.

  In  my  opinion  Heathendom  are  a  very  great  sounding  hybrid  of  traditional  doom  and  power  metal  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "War  And  Pain"  and  "Silent  Mangling".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

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