It hasn’t been long, just a few months, since this group from San Sebastian with a Venezuelan soul surprised us with their previous work, ‘Tales From The Earth’, an EP in which they tested the limits of their sound, or that was what we thought, since with ‘Oblivion’s Legacy’ they have once again made versatility their flag.
That is why we are no longer surprised that the album starts with a very cinematic beginning in “The Contemporary Circle Of Misanthropy” and the forceful riffs make their way supported by gutturals and a powerful rhythmic base in that usual mix to which Ancient Settlers It has us accustomed between melodic death metal and metalcore.
If you don’t know them, something that will catch your attention in the homonymous “Oblivion’s Legacy” is the ease they have to go from an overwhelming beginning to a melodic interlude, in the same way that they make it easy to go from clean to guttural voices by combining them with the time. The person largely responsible for the latter is Argen Death, who is fully established in the band.
Versatility, both vocal and stylistic, is going to be the predominant note, so you will not be surprised by the following duo of songs, “Stardust Odyssey” and “Wounded Heart”, where they let out the most thrash influences, these being the most direct and fastest of the entire album.
In that same line of variety, some keyboards can appear in “Subversive” that provide a more eighties sound, a fierce theme, with the guitar riff and the drums facing each other, leaving the gutturals and a melodic chorus in the middle in “Coven Garden”; or a more disturbing beginning before giving way to the brutality of “The Mechanical Threats Parabox”.
Don’t get overconfident and think that in the final stretch the surprises have been forgotten, since “The Last Battle In The Earth” has a dark touch that breaks with a futuristic chorus, while the verse hits you with gutturals and changes of rhythm constants.
It may be surprising that the penultimate song on the album is a mid-tempo song like “Cosmic Farewell”, but it is a preparation for the final blow, which comes with “Redemption”, where they return to their most characteristic style, that death metal with power. who knows how to combine more melodic parts.
Ancient Settlers has been able to take the experience of their risky previous EP to demonstrate in ‘Oblivion’s Legacy’ that there are no barriers that can resist them. It is true that they hit an anvil with the force of a hammer, but they know how to adapt to circumstances to forge a metal that can be used in any situation.
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