Disclaimer: This Thread is METAL, if you don't like Metal, I doubt the reviews here will be of much use to you, unless you want to get in the genre.
Norther - Dreams Of Endless War
(Finland - 2002)
Well, where to begin. I'm a big fan of the finnish metal scene, as two of my favorite bands are finns, (Kalmah and CoB), and I was sort of expecting material up to par when I picked up this CD.
The first listen in the store was promising, promising enough to buy, and it wasn't too expensive, so that helped. Fast Forward to the second listen at home, and this is where it gets nasty.
Yes, Norther has mastered the Black Power Metal genre perfectly. Sadly, it's too perfect. They stick to the boundaries of the genre, and don't experiment with other influences. The guitar work is fast, but only in the picking, there isn't much varied harmony in most of the songs, and I've come to the realization that at least 2-4 songs start out on the same rythm progression.. which gets kinda redundant.
Overall, I'd say 5/10, it's good metal, but it's not something you'd listen over and over.
Einherjer - Native Norwegian Art
Norway - 2000
Let's change scenes completely and take a look at a really refreshing album, because that's what came into my mind when I heard the first tracks.
Einherjer is a band that labels themselves as Viking Metal, and they really live up to it. Each song if varied, and has that low end "big scandinavian dude" feeling in most of the melody. There's a lot of nicely added keyboard + war drums interludes admist the songs, the whole viking theme really manifesting itself in a lot of songs.
Also, the vocals left me surprised, their singer isn't a singer, but he's not a Screamer either. Somehow, he manages to half mumble and half sing, and it works really well, although the mixing of his vocals was kinda quiet, the voice you hear is really different from most metal these days.
Sadly, Einherjer is now disbanded, but it's still a good album, 8/10
I'll post two more reviews next sunday if you people are interested. Also, I could put up sound 0:30 sound samples if there's enough people asking.
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* Seb goes around singing "I'm too sexy for my body"
* Wolfy goes around singing "I'm too sexy for Seb's body"
* Cave_Demon steals Seb's underwear (underwear stolen: 39)
[This message has been edited by Seb (edited March 28, 2004).]
Norther - Dreams Of Endless War
(Finland - 2002)
Well, where to begin. I'm a big fan of the finnish metal scene, as two of my favorite bands are finns, (Kalmah and CoB), and I was sort of expecting material up to par when I picked up this CD.
The first listen in the store was promising, promising enough to buy, and it wasn't too expensive, so that helped. Fast Forward to the second listen at home, and this is where it gets nasty.
Yes, Norther has mastered the Black Power Metal genre perfectly. Sadly, it's too perfect. They stick to the boundaries of the genre, and don't experiment with other influences. The guitar work is fast, but only in the picking, there isn't much varied harmony in most of the songs, and I've come to the realization that at least 2-4 songs start out on the same rythm progression.. which gets kinda redundant.
Overall, I'd say 5/10, it's good metal, but it's not something you'd listen over and over.
Einherjer - Native Norwegian Art
Norway - 2000
Let's change scenes completely and take a look at a really refreshing album, because that's what came into my mind when I heard the first tracks.
Einherjer is a band that labels themselves as Viking Metal, and they really live up to it. Each song if varied, and has that low end "big scandinavian dude" feeling in most of the melody. There's a lot of nicely added keyboard + war drums interludes admist the songs, the whole viking theme really manifesting itself in a lot of songs.
Also, the vocals left me surprised, their singer isn't a singer, but he's not a Screamer either. Somehow, he manages to half mumble and half sing, and it works really well, although the mixing of his vocals was kinda quiet, the voice you hear is really different from most metal these days.
Sadly, Einherjer is now disbanded, but it's still a good album, 8/10
I'll post two more reviews next sunday if you people are interested. Also, I could put up sound 0:30 sound samples if there's enough people asking.
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* Seb goes around singing "I'm too sexy for my body"
* Wolfy goes around singing "I'm too sexy for Seb's body"
* Cave_Demon steals Seb's underwear (underwear stolen: 39)
[This message has been edited by Seb (edited March 28, 2004).]
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