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can't really understand why Spinefarm keeps signing only bands who sound like
Children Of Bodom but I guess they are scared to take chances now that they
have found a winning concept. The problem is that once this wave of symphonic
death metal has subsided I am afraid that the label will drop one band after
the other if they aren't able to change their style. Well, back to this
album. Norther is one of the newest bands to the Spinefarm family and guess
what - they sound very much like Children Of Bodom but with a slightly blacker
edge to them. The band was originally formed in 1996 under the name Requiem
and now they have recorded their first full-length album. The first two tracks
of this album are very good indeed with the usual wonderful guitarwork and
sense of melody that have come to characterize most new Finnish metal bands.
Norther is using keyboards almost as much as Children Of Bodom and Kalmah as a
mean to make their music more bombastic and powerful. On the other hand they
also rely very much on the band's highly skilled guitarists Petri Lindroos
and Kristian Ranta who are doing a superb job on this album. Norther have done
very well in their first work of musical art but they haven't really brought
the world anything new. This is still a very good album and there is no doubt
that these Finnish guys are world class musicians. The cover version of
Europe's "Final Countdown" sounds pretty lousy though... Stand-out tracks:
"Endless War", "Darkest Time", "Last
Breath".
| Tracklist |
1. Darkest |
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Time 2. Last Breath 3. Released 4. Endless War 5. |
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Dream 6. Victorious One 7. Nothing Left 8. The Last |
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Night 9. Final Countdown |
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