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Here is a review I did for Unto Ashes' Grave Blessings:
Unto Ashes return with their fourth, and most eclectic, album to date. Grave Blessings finds Unto Ashes working at their most alchemical: with this selection of songs they mix diverse tonal ingredients in search of sonic gold. And more often than not, they find it. A fine example of what Unto Ashes is after this time around is the song "In Memory of D'Drennan" which marries a trip-hop beat to deathrock guitar, cold waves of synths, subtle male vocals, and accents of soaring neoclassical female vocals. In less expert hands that kind of experimentation would turn into a mess of disparate influences, but every song on Grave Blessings shows a perfect melding of styles. Dark folk rubs shoulders with neo-medieval danse macabre and foreboding instrumentals; every track blossoms into a monument of frightening beauty. This is one of the deepest recordings I have heard in a long time.
Originally posted here.
Unto Ashes return with their fourth, and most eclectic, album to date. Grave Blessings finds Unto Ashes working at their most alchemical: with this selection of songs they mix diverse tonal ingredients in search of sonic gold. And more often than not, they find it. A fine example of what Unto Ashes is after this time around is the song "In Memory of D'Drennan" which marries a trip-hop beat to deathrock guitar, cold waves of synths, subtle male vocals, and accents of soaring neoclassical female vocals. In less expert hands that kind of experimentation would turn into a mess of disparate influences, but every song on Grave Blessings shows a perfect melding of styles. Dark folk rubs shoulders with neo-medieval danse macabre and foreboding instrumentals; every track blossoms into a monument of frightening beauty. This is one of the deepest recordings I have heard in a long time.
Originally posted here.