Winter Madness

Year of release: 2004

Genre:Power/Melodic Black Metal
Country: Finland

Tracks:
01. Beyond The Dark Sun
02. Winter Madness
03. Sleeping Stars
04. Battle Against Time
05. Death and the Healing
06. Starchild
07. Beautiful Death
08. Sadness and Hate


In a few words:

Here is an album that spins around my player almost every day Melodic black metal is the case here. So, we have a lot of riffs and blastbeats but also a lot of melody. Without doubt in some tracks you could easily believe that you are listening to a power metal rather than a black metal band, since there are a lot of power/neo-classical metal elements in their music. The vocals are extreme in general, with some clean -almost narrative- parts. Wintersun is the side project of Jari Mäenpää (ex member of Ensiferum), who has composed and played almost everything in this album. A similar band that I can think of is Children of Boddom...Give them a try!

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Personal highlights:
"Beyond The Dark Sun", "Battle Against Time" and " Starchild"