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7.5
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MYRONATH - Duration: 00:41:56
- Available from: 05/31/2024
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Dusktone
Three years after the publication of “Djevelkraft”, the third album by the Swedish quartet Myronath arrives, called “Inferno”.
With a title like this, the Swedes also felt obliged to pay homage to our 'great poet' Dante and also title the opener “La Selva Oscura”.
Myronath are yet another band put together by artists who are already active in many other formations – here it is enough to mention the presence of drummer Fredrik Andersson (A Canorous Quintet and ex Amon Amarth).
Furthermore, the link between this band and Marduk continues in the sense that, after having had Lars Broddesson (formerly Marduk, to be precise) in the lineup in recent years and having mixed the debut album in his Twisting Serpent Studios, this new one also release was entrusted to the expert hands of Devo Andersson (another former Marduk) for mixing and mastering.
Moreover, the style of this group has always had Morgan Håkansson's band as its main reference, as well as other groups of the historical Swedish scene, from Dark Funeral to Setherial, passing through Necrophobic and slightly touching on the latest Naglfar, while with Watain the the most obvious point in common seems to be the similarity of the cover of their “Inferno” with that of “Lawless Darkness”.
In any case, in the band's declarations there never seems to have been a desire to be an innovative black metal reality, but rather one capable of carrying forward, possibly with the right amount of personality, Scandinavian-style black metal: characteristics of Myronath are therefore the sound is compact, enveloping and melodic and has more personality than its predecessor “Djevelkraft”, an album with which it shares many things, but this time the band seems to have matured and the new songs are more convincing than in the past.
Death always hovers over the sound and lyrics of the Scandinavian combo, and the themes that are inextricably linked to his figure; in addition to his dark aura, we also don't mind giving some songs a light epic tone from time to time.
The opener is a good example in which the band shows that they are making an effort to offer a Swedish-style black metal proposal, but with the addition of personal elements (a short clean vocal and a more refined songwriting than usual). The more classic pieces with an arcane melody, such as “Ire Towers”, in which something by Lord Belial can also be found, have a substance that was missing in the past, and for this reason, although we cannot speak of originality, in case of Myronath, however, we can rejoice in having an album in our hands that is part of a musical tradition that has given its fans more or less great satisfaction for decades.
The last two songs, instead of dragging tiredly towards the end of the release and boring the listener, once again demonstrate the potential that the band could implement in the future to definitively make that qualitative leap which, looking closely at the curriculum of the performers, gives us is expected.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM