The Lodge @ Corvus Corax's The Atavistic Triad Review

Corvus Corax
The Atavistic Triad

A somewhat strange and introspective work is what this band has to offer with this record, a music piece that relies heavily on folkloric ambiences, yet involved in that odd and epic Black Metal that several Scandinavian bands treasured in the early fraction of the last decade (though clearly with a superior flair).

Composed of 3 songs with a tad more than 10 minutes each, and a sort of redolent ambient prologue that works quite well in the end (even if nearly lasts for 3 minutes), the music as a whole here doesn't propose any challenge or deep feeling in the listener - especially after the press releases' comparisons with Arcturus, In the Woods... or Limbonic Art. There's a substandard use of a classic Garm's chant on opener Son of the Earth (perhaps the best of all tracks on this one), before the band departs on a somewhat cluttered Black Metal form, with passive keyboard elements spoiling its shot at it. Terminus Est continues in the same allusion as the mentioned symphony, although that small quandary with the keyboard does fade a bit, since it provides a more "attention-grabbing" logic to the situation, even if the repetitive guitar playing does once again draw a similarity (this time to some Burzum or Primordial notes). The ending Mystagogue might be perhaps the fiercest delivery of the ensemble, with its venomous and lethal vocal lines, merged with a barbaric line of attack of the remaining devices (Limbonic Art might be to blame for this though).
In the end, this is a more than reasonable debut from the other side of the Atlantic; still, due to the tracks' length and some lack of freshness for the most part, The Atavistic Triad turns up to be more of an attempt to a potion of several musical persuasions than anything else (and this might be something to be taken into consideration next time).

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