Old Corpse Road - 'Tis Witching Hour... As Spectres We Haunt This Kingdom Finsterforst - Rastlos Skálmöld - Börn Loka Iron Knights - New Sound Of War (all released in November, so I'll let you off some of them at this stage)
Released earlier int he year and should be considered essential: Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
This one's sort-of-optional, and is only for those who won't shriek in terror at the sound of a band not doing what they did ten years ago: Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes
And how could you possibly have missed... Wintersun - Time I (eight years in the making!)
Ack, a new Skalmold and I didn't know, doh! I've heard good things about Winterfylleth so far, so I will definitely listen their record on my day off tomorrow.
I'm not one to shriek in terror when bands do something else but Ensiferums Victory Songs (the first album I heard from them) never grabbed my attention, so never paid attention to them.
Victory Songs is Ensiferum's best album. Some may scoff that Jari had left (and then spent far too long making that Wintersun album), but they'd be wrong - it's the first album with no horrific ballads on it that are about as out of place on a metal album as a Manchester United fan is on the Kop. Listen to it again. And again. Then you'll get what they're all about.
Unsung Heroes - beware of that one. It's as if they started listening to film soundtracks - but went for such disjointed pieces of WTFery as Pulp Fiction and The Usual Suspects, rather than something with a coherent plotline from start to finish.
Winterfylleth's best album, incidentally, is The Mercian Sphere.
Hahaha, don't mind me, when I heard Victory Songs the album was just out, and I wasn't as head deep in the metal scene as I am now. So sure, I'll try again.
And nah WTFery in music is ok, I'm used to it *cough*Ulver*cough* and as you can see in the list above my music taste vary quite a bit ;)
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Old Corpse Road - 'Tis Witching Hour... As Spectres We Haunt This Kingdom
Finsterforst - Rastlos
Skálmöld - Börn Loka
Iron Knights - New Sound Of War
(all released in November, so I'll let you off some of them at this stage)
Released earlier int he year and should be considered essential:
Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
This one's sort-of-optional, and is only for those who won't shriek in terror at the sound of a band not doing what they did ten years ago:
Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes
And how could you possibly have missed...
Wintersun - Time I (eight years in the making!)
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I've heard good things about Winterfylleth so far, so I will definitely listen their record on my day off tomorrow.
I'm not one to shriek in terror when bands do something else but Ensiferums Victory Songs (the first album I heard from them) never grabbed my attention, so never paid attention to them.
Wintersun I planned to listen, but forgot.
The others I shall check on Youtube first
Thanks for your suggestions!
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Victory Songs is Ensiferum's best album. Some may scoff that Jari had left (and then spent far too long making that Wintersun album), but they'd be wrong - it's the first album with no horrific ballads on it that are about as out of place on a metal album as a Manchester United fan is on the Kop. Listen to it again. And again. Then you'll get what they're all about.
Unsung Heroes - beware of that one. It's as if they started listening to film soundtracks - but went for such disjointed pieces of WTFery as Pulp Fiction and The Usual Suspects, rather than something with a coherent plotline from start to finish.
Winterfylleth's best album, incidentally, is The Mercian Sphere.
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And nah WTFery in music is ok, I'm used to it *cough*Ulver*cough* and as you can see in the list above my music taste vary quite a bit ;)
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