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/:: Artist :: Satanic Warmaster ::\
:: Album :: Fimbulwinter ::
:: Year :: 2015 ::
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:: . Genre :: Black Metal Source :: CD . ::
:: Label :: Zero Dimensional Records R.date :: 2025-01-09 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: ZDR 031 S.date :: 2015-04-27 __::_
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..: Bitrate :: avg. 257kbps :..
. Quality :: 44.1 kHz/Joint Stereo .
. Size :: 107.62MB .
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:: 1. Fimbulwinter's Spell 5:01 ::
:: 2. Funeral Wolves 5:29 ::
:: 3. Korppi 6:20 ::
:: 4. When Thunders Hail 5:00 ::
:: 5. Dragon's Egg 6:57 ::
:: 6. Nuin-Gaer-Faun 7:15 ::
:: 7. Winter's Hunger 7:14 ::
:: 8. Silent Call of Moon's Temples 8:22 ::
:: 9. The Return of Darkness and Evil (Bathory cover) 3:59 ::
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:: The Bathory cover is only present on this JP version of this ::
:: album, limited to 500 copies. ::
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:: The first two songs are oriented to the more traditional black ::
:: metal due to the fast drums comprised by thunderous blast beats ::
:: and by well-sharpened guitar riffs that wander through fields ::
:: of bleakness just to emerge from that infernal sonority into ::
:: melodic sections. In order to better understand that initial ::
:: phase, we can recall bands such as Taake and Angantyr or even ::
:: Dimmu Borgir in their early years due to a quasi-symphonic ::
:: passage in ôFuneral Wolvesö. Then, we start to enter in a ::
:: musical new phase in which the rawest aggressiveness, yet well ::
:: executed, is replaced by more melodic and even atmospheric ::
:: soundscapes, like in ôWhen Thunders Hailö, in which the ::
:: keyboards give us a medieval taste. However, we donÆt get stuck ::
:: just there since the more melodic guitars reach an epic ::
:: imaginary thatÆs so characteristic within the most warrior ::
:: black metal. ::
:: ::
:: Heavy metal as Satanic WarmasterÆs source of inspiration is a ::
:: known aspect, so itÆs not a strange thing if we find some ::
:: moments related to the metalÆs mother genre, like in ::
:: ôNuin-Gaer-Faunö, in which we have guitar solos and leading ::
:: moments comprised by mid-tempo and extremely melodious ::
:: soundscapes. Also, letÆs praise the bass guitar lines that come ::
:: to surface in great harmony with the rest of the instruments. ::
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:: ThereÆs also a third and last phase in which the powerful black ::
:: metal of the track ôWinterÆs Hungerö is interrupted by a canvas ::
:: of sounds oriented to dark ambient with some electronic ::
:: arrangements reminding of NargarothÆs ôSpectral Visions of ::
:: Mental Warfareö. This approach, thatÆs not new at all, proves ::
:: thatÆs possible to overthrow limitations as we donÆt need to be ::
:: orthodox minds forever. In turn, the almost nine minutes long ::
:: ôSilent Call of MoonÆs Templesö is more driven into the ::
:: medieval ambient that was perpetrated by Mortiis or Wongraven ::
:: in the early and mid-1990s û itÆs slow, dark and foggy, but ::
:: above all, beautiful. Excepting the adjective æslowÆ, the other ::
:: ones are easily what define this new ôFimbulwinterö. ::
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