Eluveitie - Slania
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Free Music Review: Fun 'Death Metal'
Hit: 4 Stars
First of all, I'm not a death metal fan. I don't find it offensive to my sensibilities or ears and I can treat it as 'white noise' if it's playing, but I generally like clean vocals.
That said, awhile back I picked up "Amon Amarth's" "With Oden on Our Side" and enjoyed it a lot, mainly because I loved the melodic nature of the instruments. So off and on I've been searching for other music of a similar vein. Slania isn't really all that similar, but I like it nevertheless.
What IS similar is that the melodies of the music are much more interesting to me than the normal 'thrash/death' style, but the way the melodies are created is different. In Slania, the melodies are driven by the folk instruments (flute particularly) while the guitar work is very straightforward *but still quite good). As others have pointed out, Slania is often classified as straight "Folk Metal" and/or "Melodic Death Metal", thus Amazon's classification is misleading, which is why I've changed this review to reflect that.
I like the variety in the music. A couple of songs are very light on the folk instruments, others use clear vocals, including my favorite song on the CD, "Slania's Song", which features a female counterpoint which works nicely. Oddly, my one main complaint is one of repetition. There's a flute melody which appears to be repeated in many of the songs, particularly near the end of the CD.
Still, this is another example of a 'Death Metal' CD which interests me, though admittedly that's because it isn't pure Death Metal, but rather "Melodic Death Metal" or "Folk Metal".
Free Music Review: Good
Hit: 4 Stars
This is their 3rd cd and is a solid follow up to spirit. I think that this is where they really find their sound though spirit is still my favorite. Theres just something about it that I dont like as much as the other albums... it seems less organic and more polished and produced. I liked the raw natural sound of their first two albums better..I think it fit the pagan theme very well. but anyway its still good.Free Music Review: Celtic Tranquility??
Hit: 4 Stars
This album is pretty good. A lot of melody and ferocity. The first time through, I thought it sounded very similar to Dark Tranquility - but with the addition of some folk instruments. The more I listen, the less I hear the DT sound. Overall, this is a solid album - nothing mind-blowingly original, but it does the trick and gets me through another day at work.Free Music Review: a little too much folk in the metal
Hit: 2 Stars
There are aspects of this cd that aren't too bad. But the folk part is a slight understatement for this band. I bought this because of the recommendations from buying a Primordial cd. The Primordial cd is great--it took a couple of listens for it to kick in but this cd is just too damn folkey for my liking. I feel I should be dancing arm in arm with a drunken elf or dwarf listening to this cd. But I guess that is why they call this "Folk Metal". Some bands just use it a little bit more than others. Final sonic description of this album is "Braveheart" soundtrack meets Vader--if it were just that good it would be good--but its not.