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Estuary Blacks
12+ albums
post rockStoner RockProgressive metalProgressive rockwales
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Estuary may have only been released just a day shy of a year after Beorn’s Hall’s first album, Mountains Hymn, but it proves to be a broad expansion of the band’s pagan metal formula. The black/folk metal style remains dominant, but the lengths are noticeably longer. The songs are largely driven by cavernous riffs and distant growls that are occasionally coopted by Summoning-style keyboards and extended acoustic segments, but they get more room to explore. There may also be some epic doom influence that hadn’t been there before. The rather muffled production job has as much in common with late 80s Candlemass or Scald as with the stereotypical trash compactor sound and the more triumphant riff work on the title track and “New Hampshire Rain” draws comparisons to groups like Solstice and Doomsword. Of course, this is still a predominately black metal record and there are plenty of songs like “Dark Wood-Black Marsh” more preoccupied with fast blasting. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
