With members from Urn running this project, it's reasonable to expect blackened thrash, and that's precisely
what we get on Flame's Ignis Spiritus EP, a rough but not unlistenable sound. An early-Bathory
style with a little Viking-metal bombast thrown in, this album doesn't push boundaries for its genre, but it's competently
executed.
The guitars are down in the lower register along with multi-instrumentalist Blackvenom's vocals, a wailing lead
guitar providing all the treble notes. Unlike a lot of this genre's examples, the drumming is mixed nicely in, varying
from blastbeats to high-speed thrash fills. The chugging rhythms move things along at a quick pace without unduly
hurrying the tracks. Usually this works, especially on Force and Fire where the band takes a more leisurely approach to developing the song and leaves off thrashing for a while. Flame's competent and the EP is worth a spin or two, though it's unlikely to blow a listener away unless
they're already major fans of the Urn sound.
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