THE EMBODIED – Ravengod

Ravengod, the 2nd album from Swedish Melodic Heavy Metal act The Embodied delivers a refreshing blend of Old-School and Modern Metal elements to create an enjoyable and catchy generation-gap-bridging album. Fans of Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium will enjoy Ravengod just as much as old-school Iron Maiden fans. Power Metal influenced guitar riffs are combined with modern drumming styles and a perfect blend of classic and modern vocals. The album kicks off appropriately with lyrics about vampires, witches and people possessed by demons, and continues to thunder along until midway through the album when listeners are treated to several ballads. The Embodied gets all of the ballads out of their system at once and then picks things back up and returns to their lyrical playground of being burned alive by fanatical church folk.

While Ravengod contains a wide range of Metal styles and influences, they are blended and executed so well that it only serves to expand the band’s potential audience and should appeal to even genre-specific fans. In a world with so many laser focused sub-genres, Ravengod comes as a welcome embrace to all Metal fans.