The album is the continuation of what the band is doing for some time: you try out styles! In From Afar the first voices were already loud, it'll be monotonous, now, with this masterpiece but there's some real change, though not always fully successful. In detail:
-Intros Never flow with me in the assessment. Check, I prefer twice my pure, but then I skip the mostly anyway.
-In My sword I trust is the absolute top hit. Alone this song justifies the purchase of the album. That is a great piece of what they have carved out here.
-Unsung Heroes & Burning Leaves go partly in the same direction. The lyrics are just great. Goose bumps every time you hear. Musically ever something different than usual, and good!
-Celestial Bond is sometimes quite different. Female voice sings and no hard guitar riffs or bass / Drumgewalze somehow fits well on this album, on Victory Songs / From Afar it would have been messed up, but here it just fits ...
-Retribution Shall be mine haut mal so precisely each of the seats which had still ensconced at Celestial Bond. The hardest song of the record, Peter makes an extremely good job here.
-Star Queen builds on Celestial Bond to, is the style so similar to the glorious "Wanderer" That's what I extremely loved and I love this here as well, wenns NEN Tick remains behind.
-Pohjola Is there still a band, the texts from the Kalevala take? No idea, but what I know: I love about the band. And this song can be described with one word: epic. Choral singing, growls a little speech, age, because I absolutely need the translated text to ... the song is just great.
-Last Breath ... No, I can not do anything. Chanting with ner silent guitar, something melodic finale ... sorry, but I have to fit genuine. Is always skipped ;-)
-Passion, Proof, Power because I think just not pure ... Victory Songs / Heathen Throne / The Longest Journey / Lai Lai Hei, these are the great long works of Ensiferum, and on every album again the top hit. This song will not fire me. Somehow too much is because of everything in it, and nothing. The seeming simplicity arbitrarily strung together ... Maybe it's me? The part with the apocalyptic horsemen is soon to Fremdschämen ... that will probably definitely be my fault ;-)
-Bamboleo Is a grottiges original, but the version gets everything out of the song and makes it audible. If that's funny ignite the gag with me in any case: D
Conclusion: Much of what you're not used to ... 4 or 5 star, I'm just ... they evolve and vary ... 5 stars? But two songs are total failures, one of them my eigtl. Beloved long work ... 4 stars? Hm, again quickly in my sword I trust and Pohjola hear ... 5 star does not go, otherwise ... point!
