Sunday, July 4, 2010

Wan/Wolves Of The North/Abyss Records/2010 CD Review


  Wan are a band from Sweden that plays a very raw form of satanic black metal that has an evil death metal feel at times, and this is a review of their 2010 album "Wolves Of The North" which was released by Abyss Records.

Drums alternate between slow to mid paced drumming mixed in with a lot of fast playing and brutal blast beats, while the bass playing is very primal and follows the riffs that are coming out of the guitars and at times they sound very powerful.

Rhythm guitars cover a lot of ground with some fast primal black metal riffing and some mid paced and slow riffs that have a good amount of death metal and thrash influences, while the lead guitars are primal  sounding guitar solos.

Vocals alternate between high pitched black metal screams mixed in with some death metal growls and there is also is some 80's extreme metal influences in some of the vocal passages, while the lyrics are written in both English and Swedish and they are very satanic, as for the production it is very raw sounding.

In my opinion Wan are a very good band that should appeal to all fans of 90's era satanic black metal. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "13 Sons Of The Devil" "Wargoat" "War Of The Unholy" and "Rapid Satan". RECOMMENDED BUY.

www.myspace.com/theunholywan

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