Album Review: Silenced Minstrel - Volume 5 (2020)
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Silenced Minstrel - Volume 5
Release Date: October 31, 2020
Label: selfrelease
Format: Digital
Length: 50:07
Genre: Black Metal
Origin: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Silenced Minstrel is the one-person army consisting of Kuala Lumpur's Saiful Nizam Shukor. The artist from Malaysia founded the band in 2016 and has since then released album after album. As you might have assumed, this is the fifth album by Silenced Minstrel on which the solo artist is digging through the burning depths of hell.
On the surface this is pure and raw Black Metal. Riffs and rhythms rage forward like blizzards. Yet, the guitar sound is not the typical Immortal-like sound of bone-chilling cold, but resembles the blood-thirsty Bathory atmosphere instead. From time to time you can hear complex sound structures climbing up the raw Black Metal scaffoldings like on a circular staircase.
Further influences are atmospheric pieces of Gothic Metal and Blackened Death Metal machine gun attacks that add to the brachial sound on "Volume 5". What Silenced Minstrel has created here, certainly is an album that will please lovers first and second wave Black Metal. The sound is raw and brutal and solo artists Sailful Nizam Shukor travels to seven hells and back in the lyrics. Compared to contemporary Black Metal the recordings sound very scratchy. Nevertheless, "Volume 5" is an interesting and exciting output of brutal and blasphemic music.
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