10 Incredible Metal Albums You May Have Missed In 2021

A single crash of china portends the maelstrom to come, and it is a storm in the full command of Romania’s Dordeduh. Whilst dealing in the sort of cosmic stream of Death Metal made manifest by such contemporaries as Oranssi Pazuzu, Dordeduh specialise in a much more earthbound proposition, steeped in dark soundscapes of forgotten folklore.

This is an album of dichotomies, juxtaposing reverent chants against deathly howls in the space of one song, whilst simultaneously creating sounds both tribal and cinematic. Whilst other bands would treat these shifts in a schizophrenic way, Dordeduh have made their transitions much more natural. The songs ebb and flow like a river spanning across continents, calmly flowing through long passages before the pace turns into a galloping wave, crashing against rocks and sweeping up everything before it.

‘În vielistea uitârii’ plays out in the form of Progressive Doom, whilst ’Calea magilor’ could quite easily be a ritualistic summoning of a pagan God, with its lazily flowing drum beats and clean vocals laid over swelling keys. The following ‘Vraci de nord’ starts more of the same before opening up the gates to a purposeful shred and finishes with an orchestral flourish. It’s in the largely instrumental ‘De neam vergur’ where all these elements come together however, in a progressively inclined journey encompassing a greatest hits of an already great album.

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