Despite the straightforwardness, the guitars deliver riff festivities. Although I have not listened to any band that blends these two styles, NITE boldly hijacks your soul on the newest effort. It’s pretty interesting how the quartet expressed their notions through the evil and occult themes with the creative work of the guitars.

The eponymous opening song “Cut of the Serpent Sun” provides interesting riffs that draw from the classic heavy metal style. Throughout forty minutes, NITE boosts enough aggression by burrowing powerful riffs of speed and heavy metal.

Inspired riffs-crafts and variations are guaranteed with stomping drum beats and heavy bass guitar, while the lead guitars and solos run their course throughout the following song “Skull”. The instruments are on par with the blackened vocals and there are plenty of grooves and catchy melodies, the punchy drums firmly emphasize the change in the tempo in the song “Crow (Fear the Night)”.

NITE puts its powerful features upfront the raging riffs echo through the howling blackened vocals that build up into the mid-tempo heaviness, each track includes blazing solos that launch into a fueling quality of heavy metal riffs. The modern rocking bites of riff mania emit a sense of vigor and the drums batter your skull with the commanding lead guitars.

The trademark sound of 80s heavy metal recalls bands like Saxon, Judas Priest, and Accept. NITE ensures a steadfast ride into solid heaviness and catchy melodies that deliver gritty, emotional songs across the eight tracks. The rhythm section shines through the album, saturating your ears with the epic and forgotten flair of raw heavy metal.

The consistency and stylistic variation of the album are brought by high precision as the band aims to cement its slow and heavy-paced sound through effective guitar arrangements in the album’s highlight song “The Mystic”. The dark backdrop of the guitars creates an epic feeling capturing some of the classic NWOBHM, and power metal bands.

The band goes far in showing its creative inclinations when it comes to variations and gloomy atmosphere created by the guitars, as you will come across a deep songwriting experience that shows the band’s passion for heavy metal music in several songs like “The Last Blade”. The clean guitar strings at the beginning of the song explode into a passionate and effective musicianship that reinforces the riffs to flow. The combustion of fiery riffs and blazing rhythm unfolds in all its glorious ambition to capture some familiar melodic vibes of epic power metal.

Guitarists Van Labrakis and Scott Hoffman dueling offer some great and memorable moments by merging aggression and melodies. Solid drum beats handled by Patrick Crawford with the bass guitar of Avinash Mittur will vibrate the walls in your room; NITE draws a fine measure from heavy metal, with songs like “Carry On” and “Tarmut” packing more action through a stellar guitar work.

The latter is the darkest song in the album; the slow intro of the acoustic guitars then brings a mystifying guitar solo section that will blow your mind away, and the riffing churns out palpable heaviness that electrifies you with the impressive instrumentation.

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