Vorneweg I want to state that equilibrium has changed - yes, some of extreme hardness, as it was still the case with "Sagas", has been scaled back. BUT: The band and their style have to "Rekreatur" that in my eyes the "worst" is album, evolved. This can be seen clearly on this record. "Forest Shrine" offers the full range of ability of Equilibrium, as it has been estimated since its beginning. "Slow and steady wins" also offers again this Equilibrium factor, however, one hears even the positive development of the ribbon. It's a much better symbiosis between Robse and the band come about what may be because the old band members have left the band up on Rene and she was therefore almost reorganized. You can tell the Album playfulness and creativity. In particular, the stomping, the singing stimulating anthem "Caravan" is a new milestone in the discography of the band. And denounced "safe-songs" ("Inn celebration", "Uns'rer flutes sound") are musically properly, but play their full strength in the corresponding thereto situations (personal experience). Equilibrium has distanced himself from the true actual genre-typical lyrics about battles and mythical Nordic / Germanic gods mostly, but not negative attention - so just reign longer own thinking and their own ideas before in the texts; and let's face it, the lyrics, although fit to Equilibrium, but sometimes they were also very the clichéd. So I welcome the change (s).
What I regurgitates sour, is when I read things like: "Who has heard of Equilibrium outset since their Debutablum + Sagas which can not like presented here." The only evidence of musical narrow-mindedness. If one of this album do not like, we must also express this, I do not deny, but such statements are just that - to put it simply and aptly to formulate - stupid.
I'm a fan of the first hour and own all the albums, I'm still incredibly excited about Sagas and Turis Fratyr, a little disappointed with Rekreatur and full of hope for things to come due to the Earth Temple.
