WINTERSUN — Wintersun (review)

WINTERSUN — Wintersun album cover Album · 2004 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Wintersun is a fairly interesting album from a metal standpoint. While it combines the speed and melodicism of power metal with the harshness and intensity of black and death metal, it also manages to twist in a few folk-influenced melodies and a couple progressive flashes. However, listeners might find their minds wandering a bit. No doubt that there are plenty of good elements in the album: The songs are clearly structured beyond standard songwriting and there are a couple of time signature changes that are used to spice things up in plenty of power metal, along with sharp and speedy guitar lines. Virtuosity aside though, this release is pretty standard.

There are tons of good points to the album though. For one thing, the energy is pretty constant through the album. Even in the more ballad-esque tracks that are pretty standard in power metal releases the drums keep the track flowing and the melodies keep moving. One of the better examples being "Death And the Healing", which really is a haunting ballad with a simply excellent guitar solo that builds and builds and never goes overboard (well, maybe it does a bit). Jari Mäenpää, the guitarist and central focus of the album keeps his guitar blisteringly fast, another good example in the wonderfully energetic "Winter Madness" and his vocals are either a woeful black shriek or a bellowing and haunting clean tone reminding the listener of the sorrow and melancholy feeling of winter. All in all, the elements combine to create an enjoyable work.

As an extreme power metal release, Wintersun stands as an good choice, and many fans of extreme and melodic metal will be sure to come across it. However, many songs sound the same, yet branching out is not the point of the album. It is the biting yet melodic metal to portray the bitter atmosphere of a dark winter in the blistering cold, which Wintersun excels at.
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