Votum ":Ktonik:"

Country: Poland
Genre(s): Atmospheric Progressive Metal
Label: Inner Wound Recordings
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 26, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Satellite (4:56)
2. Greed (6:24)
3. Spiral (6:19)
4. Blackened Tree (3:46)
5. Simulacra (5:54)
6. Prometheus (6:59)
7. Horizontal (5:01)
8. Vertical (6:31)
9. Last Word (4:25)

Total Time 50:15

Line-up: 
Bartosz Sobieraj - vocals, acoustic guitar
Piotr Lniany - guitar
Adam Kaczmarek - guitar
Zbigniew Szatkowski - keyboards
Bartek Turkowski - bass
Adam Lukaszek - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Some atmospheric keyboard pieces pulsating in the right places, building up to some chugging riffs over mid-tempo drum work. It’s the first two tracks that define what ‘Ktonik‘ is offering here, a certain take on the sound that British legends Anathema started. While influences are evident, the album is nowhere near a carbon copy of atmospheric classics like ‘Judgement‘.
It’s tracks like ‘Spiral‘ that are demonstrating the Votum’s skill of progressive musicianship, building off of a sci-fi sound in the opening and progressing into some off-signature riffing, maintaining the core value of atmosphere throughout. The album is diverse in sound yet remarkably consistent, with the tracklisting diving into polar extremes such as the soft ballad of ‘Blackened Tree‘ and the top heavy ‘Prometheus‘.

Read the full review at themetalist.net

Media/Samples 
Satellite

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