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Wraithfinder (USA) - Self Titled - Reviewed By OccultBlackMetalZine! Thursday April 28 2022, 6:11 PM

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Wraithfinder (USA) - Self Titled - Reviewed By OccultBlackMetalZine ! Check it out here at this link: https://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2022/04/wraithfinderself-titled2022-full-length.html

Wraithfinder are a musical project from Nashville, Tennessee that plays blackgaze and this is a review of their self titled and self released 2022 album.

Acoustic guitars start off the album before going into a very fast and raw musical direction which also utilizes a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the music also adds in a great amount of shoegaze elements and the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style.

All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Synths and keyboards can also be heard on some of the tracks along with the songs also adding in a decent amount of clean sections as well as the instrumental also adding in a brief use of pedal steel guitars, clear vocals can also be heard briefly and some of the heavier riffing also shows an influence of death metal.

Wraithfinder plays a style of blackgaze that is very diverse and lo-fi sounding. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover modern day grief in the 21st century.

In my opinion Wraithfinder are a very great sounding blackgaze project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Safe" "Wannabe" and "Ships". 8 out of 10. - OccultBlackMetalZine

Release Date: April 13th, 2022

FFO: Deafheaven, Oathbreaker, Whirr

Location: Nashville, TN

A single shaft of sunlight breaking through a still, silent marshland. A sinister, rumbling guitar murmuring like tumbleweed across a vast, empty landscape. A heavy fog blanketing the visible world. A wild howl in the night.

The new, self-titled album from Wraithfinder, the brainchild of Louisiana-born, Nashville-based musician Jono Lane and featuring vocals from Camden Perez, reaches out from the depths and grabs the listener for a searing, honest exploration of modern-day grief.

On Wraithfinder, the listener will hear a wide range of sounds. Meditative, shimmering guitar licks give way to rattling, shoegaze walls of sound; pounding death metal assaults drop at a moment’s notice into the searching notes of a single, somber piano. In this way, the album reflects our all-encompassing lives in the 21st Century. I am all of these things, the songs say. I am filled with rage, I am depressed, I am anxious, I am nervous, I am melancholy, I am looking for glimmers of hope.

Reflections on the dark sides of existence comprise the dominant mood of Wraithfinder, but to label it simply a “sad” or “depressing” album is to limit its bigness. The layers upon layers of musical and lyrical depth in the album ask you to consider life the very same way: in layers of sound and feeling and meaning.

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