AVATARIUM — The Girl with the Raven Mask (review)

AVATARIUM — The Girl with the Raven Mask album cover Album · 2015 · Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Well, don't I feel like a big doof; on listening to Avatarium's debut I was thinking "wow, these guys have got the classic Candlemass sound down to a fine art", and what do you know - Avatarium is in fact a project of Leif Edling, main creative force behind Candlemass.

However, you can't dip your toe into the "female-fronted occult-tinged doom metal" angle without a kickass frontwoman, and Jennie-Ann Smith makes the difference this time around as she did previously. On top of that, to my ears it sounds like Avatarium is developing a somewhat more distinct sound, taking heavy psych influences from Blood Ceremony, Sub Rosa, and other major players in this particular doom subgenre and combining them with Leif's Candlemass-honed writing style to come up with something distinctive of their own. A more than worthy successor to the debut.
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