Hrad is a Dungeon Synth/Atmospheric Black Metal band from France. December 2nd, 2022, the band released their debut studio album titled “The Forgotten Legacy.” The album was released through WereGnome Records and Huard Productions.
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The First Three Sins of The Forgotten Legacy
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Hrad and their album, The Forgotten Legacy
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Consists of (distorted) lo-fi tremolo pickings and woven ambient/dungeon synth keys… The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves grim screams with additional chants and female vocals. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of (program) raw drum strikes and blast beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion:
Exploration of themes of loss, isolation, and grief, but also a feeling of inviting the listener to delve deep into their emotions
Immediately after the listener presses that play button, one is welcomed to the opening piece, Forgotten Legacy which welcomes the listener to an ambience atmosphere, dungeon-synth, and field sound recordings…
One continues their dark and mystical journey with the second piece, The Grim Betrayal, and the last four pieces, providing the listener with a musical art and atmosphere of mixing a DNA of atmospheric black metal and dungeon synth music where parchments of lyrics inked of (very epic and grand) medieval themes.
Forgotten Legacy delivers the listener’s ears with a strong (well-arranged/convenient to place at the right moment) composition/composing of the music/instrumental. At the same time, each piece is epic -yet grand, fairytale/fare folk-tale-like, dark, and mystic, thus creating an epic and mesmerizing atmosphere —a musical spectrum altogether woven together, capturing a medieval orientated/various soundscape/atmosphere and instrument work of flutes, (maybe) trombone, acoustics, and ambience/dungeon synth keys and the raw frigid blackened atmosphere and instrumental and vocal work.
At the same time, Forgotten Legacy is all delivered by excellent devilmanship and six equally solid, strongly composed songs and music, production, and soundscape utilizing (within each instrumental and piece) various tones, tempos, moods, atmosphere, and audio-clip samples and instrumental and vocal work consist of (distorted) lo-fi tremolo pickings woven with clean-melodic sections/solos, grim screams with additional chants and female vocals, (program) raw drum strikes and blast-beats.
Simultaneously, Hrad has created a dark, cold -yet beautiful and epic fruit of art –thus capturing multiple perspectives and atmospheres with each piece (making each piece different in sound)
At the same time, Forgotten Legacy is all delivered by excellent devilmanship and six equally solid, strongly composed songs and music, production, and soundscape utilizing (within each instrumental and piece) various tones, tempos, moods, atmosphere, and audio-clip samples and instrumental and vocal work consist of (distorted) lo-fi tremolo pickings woven with clean-melodic sections/solos, grim screams with additional chants and female vocals, (program) raw drum strikes and blast-beats.
Simultaneously, HRAD has created a dark, cold -yet beautiful and epic fruit of art –thus capturing multiple perspectives and atmospheres with each piece (making each piece different in sound)
The album concludes with the final track, Lost for Live. We want to give a shoutout to WereGnome Records for letting us review Hrad and their album The Forgotten Legacy. Now, we are going to conclude the review by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
The Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins of Hrad and their album, The Forgotten Legacy
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia:
The sound and atmosphere of the whole piece, the epic artwork, etc.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork is Epic, and caputres the essence of atmospheric black metal and dungeon synth with a splash of Tolkien and medieval vibe.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
There is nothing to dislike in the musical offerings of Hrad and their album, The Forgotten Legacy. Thus, we conclude our review of Hrad and their album, The Forgotten Legacy. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your time in reading this article, and I encourage you to explore the work of WereGrnome Records as well as Hrad.
Members
Erroiak: vocals, guitars
Rohkrao: bass, clean & acoustic guitars
Septev: drum programming, composition, keys, etc.
Zigfrid: Lyrics
Guest Members:
Alrinack: acoustic on track 3
Maggot: additional vocals on tracks 5-6
Track-Listing
01. The Forgotten Legacy
02. The Grim Betrayal
03. Necromant
04. Blood Omen
05. War
06. Lost for Life
