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Free Music Review: Dense melodic nordic metal
Hit: 4 Stars
Wintersun was a pleasant suprise, a melodic viking/death metal project with tremendous ability and dizzying technicality. The mixes are very dense with instrumentation and rarely take a break. As such, the lack of dynamics reduces the enjoyability of the disc as a whole, but the songs individually are very solid. Also avoids the dorkocity of some of these types of bands, if you care (your non-metal friends may think this less weird than others). Blast beats and arpeggios abound. Solos are well harmonized with the rhythm parts. The solo of Winter Madness must be heard by all metalheads. I am really starting to like guitar solos again.Free Music Review: Wintersun Debut Album
Hit: 4 Stars
Great sound a combination of melodic and black metal. Worth byuing it.Free Music Review: Winter madness, sleeping stars, beautiful death
Hit: 3 Stars
Formerly of Enfiserum, guitarist and vocalist Jari Maenpaa has teamed up with Rotten Sound drummer Kai Hahto to form his new band Wintersun. Rounding out the lineup are Jukka Koskinen (Norther) on bass and Teemu Mantysaari (Imperanon) on second guitar. This is their first disc and expands on a variety of influences. Basically the music is mostly in a Euro power metal vein that utilises incessant double drum bass with highly melodic twin guitar lines.
However, there is also some Gothenburg style death metal riffing mixed up with subtle folky passages that Maenpaa seems to have carried over from his former band. Granted this is no where near as Viking-inspired or folky as Enfiserum, there is a good dose of extreme metal injected into their songs, mostly reminiscent of Children of Bodom and Norther. Maenpaa's extreme scream vocals bring to mind Alexi Laiho's vocals on the earlier Children of Bodom discs, but Maenpaa also uses some clean vocals employing a low, deep register. Best exemplified on their metallic anthem "Winter Madness", he lays down a clean vocal performance over a folky melody during the breakdown that wouldn't seem out of place on a Blind Guardian or Skyclad album. The way the drums and melodic twin guitar attacks blend with a symphonic keyboard backdrop give way to a neoclassical guitar solo with brutal scream vocals on top of it all. "Sleeping Stars" is another melodic metal number starting with deep clean vocals quickly shifting to the black-ish scream type of singing. The production on this album is mediocre, and it seems the song arrangements needed more work in the studio. This certainly lacks the pristine and smooth sounds of Children of Bodom and Norther, two bands whose fanbase Wintersun must have targeted to some extent.
"Battle Against Time" is one of the longer cuts, spanning 7 minutes. It has a long, drawn-out intro that is centred around fast guitar riffing and some background vocals humming a nice melody. As the keys make their way into the track along with the vocals, it becomes more interesting with nice shifts of melody and tone. The operatic clean vocals over staccato guitar riffs and pounding kick-drums is quite enjoyable and renders this one of the most diverse tunes on this disc. Blazing guitar solos, pulverizing keyboards and an impressive rhythm workout only serve to enhance the powerful chorus sung in a nice counterpoint style. No such album goes without power ballads. Check out "Death and the Healing" with tons of acoustic guitars, catchy melodies and a subdued folk sadness. The chorus of this song isn't their best, but works well nevertheless.
Wintersun's eponymous album is an average album. It sure lends itself to a multitude of genres from power metal to melodic metal to folk, but honestly, this is just a less successful version of Children of Bodom. Future releases will sure find them improving, but so far my opinion is that Wintersun needs to decide what they really want to focus on and take things from there. Otherwise, for the regular Enfiserum fan they won't be Viking-metal enough, whilst the average Norther listener won't find the guitar-keyboard duels as satisfying. On the melodic front however, this album will appeal to many fans.
Free Music Review: just read the review
Hit: 2 Stars
so iam not gonna be dissing the album or the artist jari is very talented i have hope for the future so it has some good tracks like death and the healing and beyond the dark sun winter madness and star child the rest of the album really isnt that great slepping stars i really didnt like and battle against time and beutiful death sadness and hate werent really that great probley the least favorite so it has some good tracks but weak as an album jari does has some seriouse potential i will definetley try wintersuns next album time i guess just try it see if you like it i hope the review helped