I tried to come up with something witty pertaining to the band's name but I couldn't. Either I've run out of ideas or I'm just really lazy when it comes to making actual jokes. Anyway, Eater of Souls is a brand new atmospheric black metal band from The Netherlands that just released their first EP. It consists of only one song that is nineteen and a half minutes long. I normally don't do albums that boast really long songs as they require a great deal of attention and I have the attention span of a rodent, but the album cover intrigued me, so I'm giving it a spin.
One thing I appreciate about this album is the cloudy and mysterious production quality. The fuzz is tweaked in such a way that it makes the music sound like it's being transmitted from another world. Also, this distortion makes the howled vocals sound like Malefic of Xasthur. That's a big plus for me. When it comes to the songwriting, these guys alternate between slow droning parts and faster paced parts. This variety helps to keep the listener from getting bored.
The instrumentation is also quite excellent. The drums play plenty of great slow beats and blast beats, and the production helps to make them sound more akin to Xasthur. I also like how prominent the bass is. It helps give the music a much deeper texture. I really like the guitars. Granted, they're not original, sounding quite similar to Leviathan and other bands of that nature, but the riffs are very well-crafted and exude a great deal of atmosphere which is further enhanced by the cloudy production. It's the musical manifestation of a portal to another world.
Although they've made only one song so far, I really like what they've made. I like the cloudy production, the Xasthur-like vocals, the prominent bass, and the atmospheric guitars. The song is currently available as a name-your-price download on Bandcamp, so if you want to know what it sounds like to be transported to another world, go ahead and download it.
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