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7.0
- Band:
Iätön - Duration: 00:39:49
- Available since: 06/06/2025
- Label:
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Signal Rex
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Nostalgia operation for the Finnish debutants Iätön, coming from the city of Oulu (as well as Sentenced, Catamenia, Impled Nazarene and others), a black metal combo capable of projecting us back in the time of thirty years: in this “Portit Pohjolan” you will not find originality, but only a good dose of good taste for the dream metal metal and a personality and a sufficient personality weaken just above the average.
The release is mainly recommended – if not exclusively – to lovers of the specific musical genre above mentioned above, because those who are not in a given sound mood will soon make this group liquidate as something raw, school and boring. Instead, for those few romantics who still love to feel certain atmospheres and sounds, then the debutants Iätön can be interesting.
From production, to the simple melodic lines to the well -defined style, everything brings to memory to the years in which symphonic productions with dreamlike touch as the first Dimmu Borgir or Gehenna, but also Vordven, Dismal Euphony, Mistertein and many others, came out.
Apart from the first four songs are really of considerable workmanship because they have simple melodic lines but capable of printing themselves in the listener's head, possessing the charm of those Old-School productions, with raw and yet well distinguishable sounds, and very minimal synths with little sought after, although effective.
“Various Je Hopeasta” is perhaps the best song of the album, with his slow start which then takes hold with the entry of the synths and a simple guitar riff. Screaming accompanies the development of the song in an exemplary way, beautiful and pure in its simplicity.
Of course, the band is like a balancer who dance on the wire: it is enough that the compositional level latiti a little to make all the work fall into anonymous.
But these Iätön already shows that they have clear ideas and to know how to create, with few means (even the cover is not sought, on the contrary), a very violent album but with intriguing atmospheres, although they are not epic or disturbing as one would be thought of a superficial look.
New Black Metal reality – just to change, Finnish – to keep an eye on.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
