Hallig
A Distant Reflection Of The Void
Talheim Records
Get ready for over one hour of black metal from German band Hallig from whom this is a sophomore album. This band does everything to their music. Songs have usually fast moments, many terrorizing blast beats and high pitched guitar distortions with that well known, relentless and grim sounding guitar tone -Nordic style. Still, many fragments in this configuration sound very harsh but between all those traditional black metal elements in the music, Hallig blends melodic guitars which make songs like Neues Land and To Walk With Giants the highlight of the album.
A wrath, speed and guitar harmonies in A Dawn Beneath Titanium Clouds is what hooked me to the album right away, and they do more stuff like that in songs, but it rather guitar shredding is what drives the songs of the band and empower their darkness in many ways.
There are few tracks without very fast drumming, with more atmospheric approach by the band – the one with some mind blowing, eerie guitars is in a track Straight To The Ninth and the other one is From Ashes All Blooms which is a mix of melodic black & death metal.
It`s also the album where atmosphere changes like a weather on the sea, no matter where your boat takes you, the band through storms and vastness of black metal creativity, as well as through waves of obscure but polished sound, they will hook you into the realm of this album, instantly!
Mercilessly fast & mid paced song is Im Aufwärtsfall - Austrian-Scandinavian style black metal with killer drumming where a drummer just nails it. Same thing with vocals - Hallig has two singers in their ranks, they either scream like Nergal from Behemoth, does some dark Nordic chants, and they also perform growls and clean sounding vocals as well so the album is brutal and melodic at the same time...Of course, it`s hard to imagine extreme black metal without pitching shrieks which this album has a lot.
Into Infinity is another very good, melo-atmospheric song, the thing is that this one deserves a longer (it`s only over 2 minutes long) and better treatment than a being just an instrumental track which is how the band did it here.
Last 2 songs are still atmospheric and grimm, ranged from mid to fast tempos with aggressive moments, these ones may not to be as catchy as some tracks in the first half of the album, but melodic chants that Hallig perform here, and at many points of the album, sound actually very convincingly to my ears.
If you like bands like Thunderwar, Nocturne then A Distant Reflection Of The Void album will hits you right where you want it.
A wrath, speed and guitar harmonies in A Dawn Beneath Titanium Clouds is what hooked me to the album right away, and they do more stuff like that in songs, but it rather guitar shredding is what drives the songs of the band and empower their darkness in many ways.
There are few tracks without very fast drumming, with more atmospheric approach by the band – the one with some mind blowing, eerie guitars is in a track Straight To The Ninth and the other one is From Ashes All Blooms which is a mix of melodic black & death metal.
It`s also the album where atmosphere changes like a weather on the sea, no matter where your boat takes you, the band through storms and vastness of black metal creativity, as well as through waves of obscure but polished sound, they will hook you into the realm of this album, instantly!
Mercilessly fast & mid paced song is Im Aufwärtsfall - Austrian-Scandinavian style black metal with killer drumming where a drummer just nails it. Same thing with vocals - Hallig has two singers in their ranks, they either scream like Nergal from Behemoth, does some dark Nordic chants, and they also perform growls and clean sounding vocals as well so the album is brutal and melodic at the same time...Of course, it`s hard to imagine extreme black metal without pitching shrieks which this album has a lot.
Into Infinity is another very good, melo-atmospheric song, the thing is that this one deserves a longer (it`s only over 2 minutes long) and better treatment than a being just an instrumental track which is how the band did it here.
Last 2 songs are still atmospheric and grimm, ranged from mid to fast tempos with aggressive moments, these ones may not to be as catchy as some tracks in the first half of the album, but melodic chants that Hallig perform here, and at many points of the album, sound actually very convincingly to my ears.
If you like bands like Thunderwar, Nocturne then A Distant Reflection Of The Void album will hits you right where you want it.
Tracklist:
1 A Dawn Beneath Titanium Clouds
2 Neues Land
3 Trümmer
4 Straight To The Ninth
5 To Walk With Giants
6 Im Aufwärtsfall
7 Into Infinity
8 From Ashes All Blooms
9 The Starless Dark
10 A Distant Reflection Of The Void
1 A Dawn Beneath Titanium Clouds
2 Neues Land
3 Trümmer
4 Straight To The Ninth
5 To Walk With Giants
6 Im Aufwärtsfall
7 Into Infinity
8 From Ashes All Blooms
9 The Starless Dark
10 A Distant Reflection Of The Void
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 28.06.2020
Added: 28.06.2020
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