Come back to record Mr Astaroth, leader of one man band Ukrainian Raventale, which in just over a year and a half from the previous Mortal Aspirations ", returns with his black atmospheric doom. If so much I had enjoyed the previous release, with "After" seems to me that the talented multi-instrumentalist has taken a slight step back, proposing sounds a lot more derivative than in the past. The album opens with "Gone", ten minutes of a suffocating doom, clocked and desolate, in which the voice of our hero is confirmed suffering and despair, but never go beyond in a screaming Blackish. The sound continues to have as reference points the great masters of the genre (as of the beginning though), Anathema and My Dying Bride, showing rhythmic permeated with a pathos and a drama, now real trademark for the artist from Kiev. Steps overlap in ambient noise breakers, where the only emotion to emerge that can not be those of un'autunnale melancholy. Finally, the CD begins to take part and I can recognize the quality of Raventale, that in short (to their usual standard) title track returns to show that evil also revealed itself in previous work, while maintaining the mystical aura of the time. Minutes pass and it is the turn of the instrumental "Youth", another 5 minutes of icy landscapes typical of the steppe, where once again, wedging rhythms that bring to mind the Anathema "The Silent Enigma". Ben is so in this case being derivative, even if the originals are still unreachable, because the limit of good Astaroth, is sometimes a bit 'too repetitive in his guitar riffs. We're almost at the end of the cd and it is the turn of "Flames" more song-oriented rather than black Nordic able to continue to pursue the path of the funeral doom heard so far: a bit 'Immortal (the most epic), a little' Burzum (the most melodic) and a bit 'Dimmu Borgir ( the least experimental), the Raventale push their sound to Norway. We must say that this track is nothing but a re-recording of "Shredding the Skies by Fire", song from the debut "Means on a Crystal Field." When I thought that now the cd was over after the fourth track, a bonus track peeps of 7 minutes, which eventually will also be my favorite track on the disc, surely the most varied, even if the ghosts of Burzum and Satyricon emerge once again in a song that makes her think of minimalism. On the other hand, the review said at the opening of this "After" is by far the most derivative album of our friend, Astaroth, but I could go with a "who cares", if after all the to music jumping off the tracks of this CD, you can listen pleasantly continue to transmit the cold dark emotions, it means that we will pass this on even venial sin ... (Francesco Scarci)
(BadMoodMan Music)
Rating: 75
Rating: 75
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