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Review: Apogee - From the Shallows of a Consumed Earth
Apogee
www.facebook.com/apogee.blackmetalband
From the Shallows of a Consumed Earth

Label: Independent
Year released: 2022
Duration: 25:30
Tracks: 6
Genre: Black Metal

Rating:
3.25/5


Review online: May 2, 2022
Reviewed by: Mjölnir
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Apogee are a French Black Metal band that sound a lot like how you would expect them to. Blistering tremolo riffs, moody, sometimes soaring melodic sensibility, some second-wave sensibility to the production and songwriting, it has it all. On paper, that sounds great, but while there's nothing wrong with this, no one part stands out as particularly great to me. The riffs are standard and brought down by a guitar tone that's a little fuzzier than necessary, the leads can be cool but are more often merely alright, and the songs never feel like they're going anywhere special and often just stop whenever they feel like it. Not even the prominent bass work does much to make this stand out, and a fairly spacious production goes a long way in revealing how little is really going on with the songs. As a first attempt, there's some promise for stronger works, but as is, this is mostly an adequate time waster that stands to remind you that the glory days of the French Black Metal scene ended long ago.

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