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The Norwegian band Windir was formed in 1994
as a one-man project by Valfar. After recording a couple of demos and several
albums he has now teamed up with his friends and members of the local band
Ulcus (formerly known as Ulcus Molle). "Likferd" is the band's fourth
full-length album and will certainly appeal to fans of Mithotyn, Einherjer and
other similar bands who have adopted the mixture of atmospheric folk music and
black metal generally labelled as "viking metal". The music is majestic and
epic but not as technically weird as Einherjer, the vocals consist of both
black metal style and clean male choir-like ones. There is one thing in
particular that separates the music of Windir from the bands I have mentioned.
In some of the songs there are thrash metal riffs that reminds me of older
Testament and that is something you are not used to hear from a band like
Windir. The music is well performed, the song material is very nice, the
vocals are satisfactory and the production is great as the album was recorded
at the Akkerhaugen Lydstudio (Myrkskog, Emperor, Zyklon...). Even though Vafar
has been running this band for a decade soon this is my first encounter with
them but it was a very pleasant one. This is definitely not for those of you
who believe that black metal should be under-produced and raw but if you like
atmospheric, melodic and epic extreme music then I suggest you check out this
album. Stand-out tracks: "Despot", "Blodssvik",
"Dauden".
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1. Resurrection Of The Wild 2. |
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Martyrium 3. Despot 4. Blodssvik 5. Fagning 6. On |
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The Mountain Of Goats 7. Dauden 8. Ætti Mørkna |
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