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Anwynn is the eighth studio album from Morrigan, a band that's been around since the early '90s in one form or another. They play atmospheric/epic black metal and employ a mix of harsh and clean singing. I have to say the harsh singing, a biting, venomous rasp, is far superior to the clean singing, which is depthless and uncharismatic. There are some good riffs and drum work on cuts like "Taech Duinn," but at other times the album is rather slow and plodding. It sounds like Morrigan is trying to give the music a sense of space during the slower songs, but it just makes it dull. There are even times when the chord progressions sound like something from the end of Pink Floyd's The Wall ("Feoladaire," "White as Snow"). Morrigan is going for something in the vein of later Bathory (including the inclusion of questionable clean singing) and perhaps a bit of Moonsorrow or Summoning, but Anwynn doesn't have the songwriting to hold a candle to any of those bands. There's better atmospheric black metal out there.