Basically just a less insane Bodom. I used to spin They Will Return all the time as a teenager and I bet if I gave it another go I'd still think it was great. Fuck off! Tired of useless reviews. Yours is one. The album is great and I'm not even a die-hard. I got news for ya, if you like this album, you're a diehard. This is like, objectively lame songwriting. The sense of progression is completely nonexistent and it's just really bloated full of ideas stretched out way beyond their logical runtimes.
It's fine to be a diehard, but don't play coy. Source hasitleaked. Added Jan 11, Added Jan 18, Loneliness Winter Total running time: Jari's words on his facebook page Yes, you guessed it! Added Jan 27, Thank you! Added Feb 15, Jari's Statement on Wintersun's Official Facebook Page: This album is more primitive and organic than I normally like to do, but still modern, melodic, epic, bombastic yet also dark and dare I say even shocking and we love it!
Here's some hints: 1. Something missing ; 3. Something stripped ; 4. Something enhanced ; 5. Something improved ; 6. Something live ; 7.
Something acoustic ;. Added Feb 25, I am the mist in the morning I am the moss in the ground You are the light that cuts through the stone I am the worms in the dirt I am the branches reaching the sky You are the source, the orchestrator of life In the dark rain the gray mountains sing A sad song of winter and the howling wind Visions of the past in the haunting dreams Under the dead sky, under the withered trees The night fall upon the forest that weeps Father of shadows that forever sleeps I saw the lakes that shimmer I heard the clanging of the wild rivers You are the voice that carries throughout the land I felt the strenght of my ancestors As i walked through the land of the dead You are the fire that burns forever In the dark rain the gray mountains sing A sad song of winter and the howling wind Under the dead sky, under the withered trees The night fall upon the forest that weeps Father of shadows that forever sleeps.
Added Mar 01, Added Mar 10, Added Mar 14, Added Mar 15, Added Mar 16, Added Apr 06, Added Apr 29, Added Jul 02, Added Jul 16, Album stream: There is no official stream reported. Album pre-order: No pre-order link added. You might also like. Helloween : Helloween. Isole : Dystopia. Equilibrium : Renegades. Sirenia : Arcane Astral Aeons. Rhapsody Of Fire : Legendary Years. Leave a Response Cancel reply Warning: If your comment includes an album download link or to an illegal download site, you will be banned!
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Functional Functional. This is an album which takes time to absorb and learn. In the vein of other progressive death metal bands there are a mixture of extreme metal vocals, screams and cleanly sung parts.
No disrespect to Jari Maenpaa but I consider him a better guitarist than a vocalist. Wintersun told us at the time of release that this album would be the first of a two-parter, and that we couldn't judge this one without hearing the second part.
But as of mid we have no signs of the second part to this so we have to judge it on its own. Its good, polished, highly technical and progressive. But when I think it took 8 years to produce I have to wonder is this the best it could have been? This is definitely somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. I think I'll round it down to 3 stars. Don't get me wrong, I love this album, but any more than 3 stars would be too many. The idea of capturing the cold and darkness - of a country that sees less light and more cold winters than others - is an appealing endeavour.
Most Norwegian black metal bands have gone to hell and back to acquire this essence, but sometimes have fallen to the traps of politics and religion that are needlessly laid on the table, forsaking the only thing that is relevant in the first place: the music. If you are not into extreme metal, and the growls and screams that go with it, I still urge you to listen to the track Death and The Healing, as not only is it sung with a clean melodic voice, it also captures the Finnish winter: white, stark and beautiful.
I have spun this album many times over the past month. As well as being exciting and with the exception of "Land of Snow and Sorrow" fast paced, the album is colourful and atmospheric. The band seems to have a little more direction than in the last album and their sound brings colour into the metal scene. Musical, exciting and just brilliantly performed.
Some of the greatest metal screams I have ever heard are in this track. What I feel lets this album down a little is the fact that it revolves too heavily around the synthesised orchestra. While I do like the sound of the orchestral parts and think they fit the band well, I think that they should have held them back a little and bought out the guitar parts a bit more.
But as I have said before, the band have found a unique sound and they have many years to develop it. I feel that this album will always be recognised as a classic.
Review by kev rowland Special Collaborator Honorary Reviewer. If you were going to take some musical reference points then start with Devin Townsend, throw in Nightwish and Opeth and then mix it all up and start to layer it. Then add some more layers, and then some more. It's just as well that the production is as good as it is as otherwise this could easily come across as a bucket of mud, the number of tracks being used is incredible.
The person mixing this must have been an octopus in a previous life, even with Pro Tools. This over the top use of instrumentation is one of the delights of the album, but also one of the downfalls. At times it is possible to get somewhat overwhelmed by all of the aural delights being thrown, almost as if the piece of chocolate cake is too much as it is so rich.
That is somewhat mitigated by the length of the CD which is much more like an old vinyl album at 40 minutes long. There are lots of musical ideas being used, as the music moves from full-on over the top bombastic symphonic to plain and simple oriental ideas then we get loads of death metal elements thrown in for good measure. I enjoy it while I am playing it, but always find that when the album finishes and the next one starts that it is like a breath of fresh idea.
Overall a good album, but best sampled in small doses. Sometimes, good things need some time to be done but this is not the case at all for Wintersun's new output that has been released eight years after their first strike following many complicated recording sessions, lots of strange announcements and wrongful promises and more and impatiently growing expectations from critics and fans. After all the dramatic events over the last years, they could only fail. In the end, couldn't one have seen this coming?
This complexion led to a quite predictable result as the new overhyped record turns out to be completely overloaded. The guitar riffs feel lackluster and are buried under a too big amount of symphonic elements. Despite the length of the single tracks, they show no progression whatsoever. The calmer moments lack of emotions, the louder parts lack of energy and the productions is without dynamics. The whole record has no catchy moments even though the same patterns are heavily repeated.
Apart of the instrumentals, all songs vary from calm ambient or folk rock introductions to extreme symphonic metal or melodic death metal parts to calmer folk metal sections before the entire circle is repeated again and again and soon starts to get quite predictable. The few new elements such as the Japanese folk parts are overused in the genre and don't fit at all to the topic of ice and snow. That being sad, the song titles lack as much of originality as the tracks themselves do.
In the end, there is nothing left to say but that this record collapses under its own pressure and feels directionless and overloaded. Maybe the sound would have been more mature and natural if the release would have taken less time. I can understand that the band finally wanted its material to be released but maybe they should have worked on something completely different and new as time went by.
The plan to make two records out of one is a good commercial idea but artistically, it just stretches the whole chapter and people like me are not looking forward for the second part of this release at all. But maybe time will change things again and the band will actually revise its initial decision or work on their songs to make them sound more natural.
As most of the reviews on here are surprisingly positive, they though surely don't feel the need to improve so that my expectations are very low for the upcoming release. Review by J-Man Prog Reviewer. Though this may sound far-fetched to the unsuspecting listener, this is an incredibly dense composition - vast orchestrations, multiple vocal melodies at once, huge keyboard tones, and pummeling guitar riffs characterize the music here, and it seems like every minute consists of dozens of musical ideas and melodic phrases blended into one coherent piece of music.
The key word in that sentence is 'coherent' - although lots of things are always going on and most of the riffs are very death metal oriented, melody is the first priority here. Epic choruses and bombastic keyboards may not appeal too much to death metal purists, but more open minded listeners are likely to be amazed with the vast array of sounds that Wintersun has conjured. Almost as if a symphonic power metal band decided to up their testosterone level, Time I takes everything that's great about epic metal and makes it more heavy, progressive, and complex than anything I've ever heard before.
Beginning with the Tolkienesque intro "When Time Fades Away", Wintersun shows us right off the bat that this will be an epic journey; the intricate arrangement, touches of Eastern influence, and climatic final segment make this one of the best instrumental intro tracks I've ever heard on a metal album. It segues right into the thirteen minute behemoth "Sons of Winter and Stars", and this track immediately sets the stage for the rest of the album with its heavy riffs, multi-layered keyboard arrangements, and massive choruses.
The main chorus has a Viking-influenced feel that showcases Wintersun's strong connection to Scandinavian folk music. The album closes on a more atmospheric note, but that is certainly appreciated when one considers how bombastic the rest of the album is. Time I is a short album by today's standards, clocking in at only forty minutes, but that is easily forgivable considering the depth and quality of the material offered.
This is an example of 'all killer, no filler', and I would take that over a boring eighty minute album any day of the week. Wintersun is a group of musicians that have absolutely mastered their craft as artists, and the stunning vision of extreme symphonic metal shown on Time I exemplifies a band that has a burning desire to push music into uncharted territory - a professional, ambitious, and masterfully written observation, the first album in the Time saga stands tall as one of the year's best metal albums.
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