Today’s review is of Irish Progressive Blackened Folk Metal band Corr Mhóna’s upcoming conceptual album, out on April 16th.
This album is about water, especially about its creative and destructive duality. Based on that, some parts of the album are quite aggressive and extreme, though always with progressive hints much like modern Enslaved, while other parts are highly acoustic and soothing, perhaps like calmer tracks of Primordial.
This combination is not at all arbitrary, and the result doesn’t sound artificial. Added to all, you may even find bits that tend more towards Doom in the likes of Katatonia as on “An tSuláin”, but that remains quite subliminal, with other influences being predominant, such as Lux Divina (especially in the vocal performance). This is an interesting album that may be enjoyable to fans of a wide spectrum of genres, but only if you aren’t expecting anything too violent.
I recommend this album to fans of Folk Metal, Progressive Black Metal and Progressive Blackened Death Metal. My rating is of 9/10.
Varg The Mighty
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