Considering this is the second re-release of this Spanish bands sophomore album, 'The Last Breath Of My Mortal Despair' I suppose I had my expectations set high for this release. Well, not exactly. Personally I never even heard of the band until receiving the promo of this album, but before actually playing the album I did my research and formed some hopes for a decent recording. Hopes partially met, I suppose.
Empty is tricky to describe. It seems their music lies within a speedy to mid-paced style of black metal with some slower moments and a decent amount of dark atmosphere to keep things interesting. The band themselves seem to describe their music as depressive black metal, but this is certainly much better than Xasthur, Leviathan, Wedard and other similarly horrendous bands that are greatly overrated. The guitars generally don't offer up much in the melodic variety except during the slower moments and the drums are mostly very brutal, yet the vocals are diverse and certainly don't stick to one single style as way to many black metal bands like to do. No keyboards are used, but the music retains a highly atmospheric touch to it, which is key in black metal music.
Still even as this album holds some positive qualities there really isn't any single song that stands out among the seven, yet I suppose some albums are just better to listen to as a whole anyway. An interesting album that's worth throwing on here and there, but certainly not one that's destined to become and all-time favorite.
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