melodic / progressive / avant-garde / black metalfrom pyromusic.net:
Mixing standard raspy-yet-distinguishable death vocals with much cleaner vocals that sound similar to those of Andreas Hedlund a.k.a. Vintersorg, (current lead singer of Borknagar) and your usual brutal Death music, Black Harvest’s Shrine of Hours isn’t quite what one would come to expect from most ordinary Death Metal.
Despite their young age as a band, Black Harvest have put together a very nice piece of work with Shrine of Hours. The musical highlights for me are the softer and acoustic moments (borrowing heavily from Opeth) on tracks in which both music and vocals slow and soften, helping to separate the tracks from many other Death Metal bands whose music is a relentless, full-on aural assault the entire duration of their records. Fans of Katatonia and My Dying Bride may also hear a few similarities as there are even some doomy segments to please the ear.
Many Death Metal fans are likely to quite enjoy Shrine of Hours and I recommend it to anyone interested in younger and up-and-coming metal acts. While it’s certainly not a masterpiece, Shrine of Hours has its merits. Tracks are structured, varied and well-produced.
riyl: katatonia, akercocke, enslaved, cannibal corpse, opeth, my dying brideshrine of hours
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