out now: Lutharö - melodic extreme metal from Canada

Lutharö

Hiraeth

15 October 2021

With three EPs beginning in 2015, the Canadians have been heading towards the full-length (ten tracks in about 47 minutes) for a while, and 2021 is the year. You can understand the music in a couple of ways: Lutharö is melodic death metal with growling and melodic singing, or Lutharö is thrash/power with melodic death metal tendencies. The guitar is a fast, smooth, polished thrashy style with some death and black riffing, soloing, and shredding. The speed generally goes from fast to very fast, from rocking to headbanging. The singing is predominant, and the growling is secondary but an indispensable, constant part of the sound. Lutharö is something like a parallel version of melodic death metal, if you can imagine a whole lot more melodic traditional singing, and while we are at it, imagine a more energetic, faster, tighter sound in a thrashing shredding execution. The album is a lot of fun, and it is safe to say that it leans more towards the thrash/power/heavy direction while incorporating important aspects of death metal. It is a proud headbanging album with catchy songwriting. Easy to like, easy to listen to again.

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