![]() The folk aspects, however, were masterful and lifted the whole. I wanted to love Mystras‘ debut but it was ‘merely’ a very good record, held back by a slight lack of inspiration in the black metal aspects of the record, which was emphasized by production issues. Scroll forward a year and Mystras is back with their sophomore effort, repeating last year’s feat, as Empires Vanquished and Dismantled follows Spectral Lore‘s Ετερόφωτος, which came out in April, receiving caveated praise from Doom_et_Al. ![]() ![]() ![]() Castles paired raw, harsh black metal with traditional medieval folk to offer a scathing and emotive assessment of the poverty, oppression and injustice suffered by medieval European peasants and the sacrifices made to fight back. When Mystras‘ first outing, Castles Conquered and Reclaimed, dropped last year I expressed some surprise that Ayloss had the capacity to write and release another record, alongside the epic Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum split, never mind something of the scope of Mystras. ![]()
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