Wintersun - Time I - 2012

Band: Wintersun
Album: Time I
Country: Finland


Release date: October 19, 2012
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Extreme power metal, Folk metal, Progressive metal
Existed since: 2004


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Review:
Its been a long wait since their self-titled debut masterpiece. Wintersun is finally back w enough material for 2 cds, Time I n II, w number 2 coming next year.
The album contains mainly of 3 songs clocking around 10 minutes each n 2 shorter instrumental songs.
This is epic folk metal, giving us great progressive melodies.

Recommended


Album musicians:
Jari Mäenpää - vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass
Kai Hahto - drums
Teemu Mäntysaari - guitars
Jukka Koskinen - bass

Guest musicians:
Mikko "Ilmarinen" Salovaara - choirs
Heri Joensen - choirs
Olli Vänskä - choirs
Mathias "Warlord" Nygård - choirs
Jukka-Pekka Miettinen - choirs
Markus Toivonen - choirs
Sami Hinkka - choirs
Alpha Valtias Mustatuuli - additional growling



Tracklist:

1. When Time Fades Away
2. Sons Of Winter And Stars
• Rain Of Stars
• Surrounded By Darkness
• Journey Inside A Dream
• Sons Of Winter And Stars
3. Land Of Snow And Sorrow
4. Darkness And Frost
5. Time

Previous records:
Wintersun, 2004

Samudra - Reformation - 2012

Band: Samudra
Album: Reformation
Country: USA


Release date: October 19, 2012
Label: self-release
Genre: Progressive metal, Deathcore
Existed since: 2010


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Review:
Hard-hitting deathcore w 2 vocalists overlapping each other, both singing harsh n clean, n also do some choir. The softer passages goes more towards jazzy prog-rock, w some stand-alone guitar-parts.



Album musicians:
Collin Duffy - guitar, vocals
Casey Parent - drums
Geoff Whitaker - bass
Patrick English - vocals, guitar
Chris Aguirre - guitar



Tracklist:

1. I
2. Beginnings: Put To Sleep
3. Elegance: The Wavering Light
4. Beauty: To Become The Sunset
5. Time: The Inner Workings of Autumn's Murder
6. Amnesia: Anatomy of a Breakdown
7. Samudra: A Gathering of Waters
8. Lifeless: Left in the Wake
9. Parasomnia: Bow Before The Coma
10. X
11. Revelation: Perceived Existence

Listen to full album at Bandcamp