Vintersorg - Till Fjalls

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• VINTERSORG TILL FJAALLS

Free Music Notes for Till Fjalls

Free Music Review: One of the best albums I own
Hit: 5 Stars

It opens with the brief and folksy 'Rundans'. A very pleasant intro to the album, it hinges around a simple but eloquent melody (sung by Vintersorg, of course) over pastoral acoustics, with an electric guitar in the background during the verses. No drums in this one.
Next comes 'För Kung Och Fosterland', the first actual metal song on the album. In addition to his awesome clean baritone voice, this song features some of Vintersorg's 'grim black metal' vocals. It hardly sounds like the same man. I mean, his clean voice is so warm and majestic that you wouldn't believe that he could also utter such sinister growls. Another cool part in this song is the interlude, which includes a metallized version of 'In the Hall of the Mountain King'. It fits perfectly.
The next song, 'Vildmarkens Förtrollande Stämmor', is quite similar, only there are no grim vocals in this one. Some wonderful melodies are found here, included a short but sweet a capela ending.
Next we have the mighty title track, 'Till Fjälls', possibly my favorite song on the album. It begins with piano, and then the band jumps in with a nice, speedy riff and a scream from Vintersorg (with the piano still playing in the background). This song has plenty of blackened vocals, but again, the main focus is his stellar singing. The song is mostly fast paced, except during the chorus, which is just great. Don't be surprised if you find yourself walking around singing, 'Till fjälls, till fjälls, där storm mig famnar! Till fjälls, till fjälls, vakad av ramnar!' over and over. 'Till fjälls', by the way, means, 'to the mountains', or 'to mountains', I believe.
After this we have 'Urberget, Aldst Av Troner'. Not much to say about this one that I haven't said about the others; it's a great song, as all songs on this album are. There are some nice grim vocals on this one.
Then we have 'Hednad I Ulvermånens Tecken', a short, soft song. I really love this one; it's so beautiful. Vintersorg is singing over piano -- what more needs to be said? This song fills me with longing; not longing for any particular *thing*, mind, but just a vague, poignant longing. For me, this is always a good thing in a piece of music.
After this, though, Vintersorg wastes no time in getting back to the metal. 'Jökeln' is a fast, aggressive song for the most part, with a lot of grim vocals. Clean voice is used more sparsely here than on the rest of the album, but when it is, it's just wonderful. The melodies he sings!
The next song, 'Isjungfrun', stands out to me because of the beautiful voice of Cia Hedmark. Vintersorg also shines on this one, and the ending duet approaches transcendental. This is another song that conveys that sense of longing that I can't quite define.
'Asatider' is next, and begins with what sounds like a battle. I love the melodies in this song. There's a nice guitar solo in this one, too. One might say that this is one of the more straight-ahead metal songs on this album. All clean vocals here, no grim vocals.
And finally, we come to 'Fångad Utav Nordans Själ'. Great performances by everyone in this song, especially Vintersorg and Cia Hedmark. This song features layering of clean and grim vocals, which creates a very interesting and highly enjoyable effect. There's also a long acoustic passage where Cia sings alone. Such a soothing part... but then the metal crashes back in, with a sort of grim-clean-grim-clean vocal tradeoff taking place. And then, the moment we all knew would come but prayed that it wouldn't... the CD ends.
As you can see, I am highly impressed by this album, and indeed with Vintersorg, and I fully intend to purchase everything else with which he has had any involvement. Once you hear this album, I'm sure you'll want to do the same.

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