Latvian heavy music band "Purva Metāls" offers their first EP of the same name "Purva Metāls". The album contains five compositions dedicated to swamps and mythology. In 2018, recordings of the first demo versions of the songs began, so 2018 can be called the year the group was founded. The instrumental and vocal performance of the music varies between different metal and rock genres, without trying to fit into any particular one. The main sources of musical inspiration are 80s-90s metal, symphonic motifs and industrial rhythms. Lyrics are mostly about devils, monsters, fantastical beings and different inhabitants of swamps or the swamp itself. The swamp is depicted both as a mythical and mystical place for various epic events and stories, as well as as a very real part of nature with its biological properties.
The members of the band, similarly to the old school Scandinavian metal traditions, want to remain anonymous, therefore they have adopted Latin names of swamp and forest plants, mushrooms and animals as their pseudonyms.

Source: https://purvametals.bandcamp.com/releases