Astray Valley are a Modern Metal band from Barcelona, Spain. The band consists of Clau Violette: Vocals/Screams, Joan Aneris: Guitar, Àdri Funérailles: Guitar, Jorge Romero: Bass and Unai Splinters: Drums.

Over the last year or so, I have noticed that there are several bands from Spain that are starting to make waves within the Rock and Metal world, and one of those bands is Astray Valley.

Now, when I got the Unneth album through from Astray Valley a few weeks ago, I put the album on to see what the album sounded like and to see what my initial impressions were, and those impressions were good, so when I was putting my radio show together one week, I added one of their songs to the playlist, to see what my listeners thought of them, and the general consensus was good, that the listeners liked what they heard, and that was a conformation for my initial impressions of the band.

As I listened to the Unneth album on several occasions there are songs on the album that I have found that I liked or I found interesting, they are: Entity, Hollow, The Wilderness, Parallel Visions, Waters Of Skylah, Constellations, Singularity, Ethereal, Northlights, Pathways, The Collapse, Oblivion, and Polarity.

Entity might be one minute long and is the intro track off the album, but it sets up the album perfectly. Ethereal is a really good instrumental, as it has some cool drums and guitars on the track. Northlights is one of my favourites off the Unneth album, as it has a perfect blend of aggression in the vocals and in music, especially in the drums. Pathways, like Northlights, has that aggression in parts of the vocals, with the clean and the scream vocals. Oblivion is another one of my favourites from the album, as this has a more mellow side to the track, but still has that edginess to it within the scream. Polarity like Entity that set up the album, polarity is a brilliant atmospheric outro track that closes the album out.

Well, Astray Valley has made a fan here today, as I loved every minute of the Unneth album, as it has some amazing vocals, guitars and drums. This album pretty much has everything on it that a Metalhead would ever want, so I would highly recommend that you go and check out Astray Valley on their Facebook page, as you will not regret it.

I would give Astray Valley and the Unneth album a 5 out of 5. Everyone should have this album in there collection.

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