Though it
has gone through many stylistic changes over the years, one of the tenants of
black metal has always been the harsh, raspy vocals over the pummeling blast
beats and distorted guitar riffs. Some
bands have played with and tweaked this formula, adding clean vocals here and
there to complement the rasps, and interjecting long passages of ambient music
in between lyrics. But what happens if
you take away those vocals entirely, leaving only the music? Temple seeks to answer this question
directly, with their brand of black metal-influenced instrumental metal on
their debut album On the Steps of the
Temple.
Find out if
it works after the jump…
