Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Drudkh - Shadow Play (2025)

 

The 13th album from this band from Ukraine.

The band is a duo on this album with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

This band is in reality a one-man-band and has been that since the start. The person behind it never gives out information or do any interviews. It still have a big following and is one of the bigger extreme metal/black metal bands in the world.

Drudkh has always been somewhere between folk music, black metal and progressive rock. That is not the case on this fifty-five minutes long album. 

What we get here is fast and furious black metal. There are still some hints of folk music and progressive rock here but these hints are very faint, indeed.

There is a great deal of sadness in the music. No wonder taken into consideration the unprovoced Russian attack on Ukrainia.

The result is a decent enough album. I am no fan of black metal but this is an album well worth checking out even for those of us who are not fans of this genre.

2 points

 

 

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