Primeval

Before I can share my opinion about this EP, I have to say that I'm not a very black metal/post-black metal fan, but this case is different because a personal philosophy is that you always need to be open to a different genres and music styles independently if you're not a big fan of X or Y genre. In this case, "Primeval" is the first production I've ever heard of post-black metal and unfortunately, is not my kind of music (at least, taking this production as a reference to the genre). Why? Let me explain it.

In a very personal way, I always want to start with the "bad things" first because I can give my opinion about this, but later on, I can say the positive thi9ngs about the production as a way to express that not everything is bad and there are things that are very well done so, this EP will not be the exception, I'll start with the bad things first.

First of all, and I think this is the most relevant aspect of this production that makes me give a bad/neutral review, is that the music is extremely monotonous. I got tired of hearing the same riff over and over again for several minutes and I have to say that variety will help the listener to get hooked to your music. Obviously, I know some repetitive riffs could be interesting, but as an advice, don't abuse of this because your music could bore the listener and get the worng idea of your music.

Also, another thing that I didn't enjoy at all was the black metal voice of Sara. I know it's black metal and I know vocals needs to be black metal-like screams with a harsh tone, but on this production, the voice didn't fit at all the music as expected for a black metal band, the lot of echo in the voice, in my opinion, is not well fitted with to the music.

Now, I'll share the good things about this EP that I have to say, I got surprised with the two last songs of this production. "Yarilo" and "Nature" are the most black metal songs on this EP and I have to say that those actually sounds really good, especially because they are more "metal" that the previous ones. Additionally, Sara's clean voice on "Nature" was a very big surprise for me because, this time, fitted perfectly with the music, giving a very interesting ambient to the music.

In terms of production, mastering, mixing, etcetera; I have to say that they did a very good job here. All instruments are well recorded (including the voices) and no instrument opaque each other, you can perfectly hear the guitars, bass and drums accordingly without making any effort from your part to distinguish which instrument is being played and which one is, but cannot be heard because of the others.

Finally, I can say that I didn't enjoy this EP as much as I desired, but hopefully, if they can produce more music in the future by adding a little bit of variety on their music, they could get a very well produced music style that can be enjoyed, and with this, I don't want you to get me wrong, at the end, this is just my opinion based on what I heard, but maybe if you're more into post-black metal, this could be a very good/excellent release for you, but is not my case and this doesn't mean this is a poor or very bad release though.