I guess some people gets offended when I say some band has the taste of a band, or some band sounds like another band, or whatever, but believe me my child of the night, I mean no harm. It’s a way of making you, the reader, wonder how the band sounds. It’s just a honest comparison. So, “Black Sky” sails safely through Doom Metal’s conventions. As it is an EP with three tracks, I had to pay enough attention to the marks Mnrva left in it to be able to write about it. Well, what called the eye immediately is the bluesy guitar intro in “Not the One” and all the interventions guitarist Byron Hawk does throughout the album. He is not the most technical or shredder guitarist of all, but the man’s got feeling, and that’s enough. His inspired interventions have the pros of being on the exact time. I like that a lot.
Mnrva don’t sound like Black Sabbath, and I must say, it’s another pro to their music. Sounding like Black Sabbath is a dangerous and thin ice for Doom Metal bands. I know it is very hard no to because the genre leads to it as if an auto-pilot mode. But Mnrva did it okay.
Mnrva “Black Sky” will be released on October 04th.
Track Listing:
Not the One
No Solution
Black Sky
Watch “Black Sky” alive video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!