Wuthering Heights - Salt (2010) 
Origin: Denmark
Genre: Progressive/Symphonic/Power/Folk Metal
Lyrics: Life, Fantasy, Nature, + Later some Tolkien Stuff
Quality: Ape, Image + Cue Weight: 435 MB
Tracklist:1. Away!
2. The Desperate Poet
3. The Mad Sailor
4. The Last Tribe (Mother Earth)
5. Tears
6. Weather the Storm
7. The Field
8. Water of Life
9. Lost at Sea
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ამონარიდები "Encyclopaedia Metallum" - იდან რამოდენიმე "ტრეკზე"
A song like “Away” is overture territory. You get a steroid injected sea shanty crossed with a doom metal dirge crossed with a speed metal head rush. In the end it’s hard to believe any band can manage so epic a spell with a track that runs less than a minute and a half. But from hereon we’re averaging around six minutes per song. No padding, no jamming and no been here before. Just master songwriter Erik Ravn calling the shots. He writes everything and is an absolute puppet master extraordinaire.
“The Desperate Poet” is actually interesting for another reason. It allows Ravn a nod to another epic songwriting genius. The lyrics are a bombastic journey about writer’s block. But that’s just the cue. The music opens with an old school metal anthem stab followed by a gallop and chorus that seem to be saying the music is doing exactly what the words are saying: I’m stuck for ideas and i’m trying to dig myself out of it. And it’s about this point that the prog side step moves into Jim Steinman territory. If you don’t know who that is, look it up. You haven’t lived. In Ravn’s hands we end up with a melodramatic closing coda done metal.
“The Mad Sailor” is a meaning of life song built on a metaphor that the album will keep coming back to: the storm at sea. The philosophical angle here is “no regrets”. The musical angle is take no prisoners. The end result is power metal shifts in a head on collision with speed metal outbursts. Almost exactly the same thing can be said for “Tears” and “Weather the Storm”. More lost soul and lost moment lyrics set to a tidal wave of choruses with an insanely catchy hook and guitar work that’s too damn restless to ever settle: neoclassical wizadry, thrash intensity, power chords and blinding speed for starters.
“The Last Tribe (Mother Earth)” continues the eco requiem theme of the song “Tree” from two albums back. On that one Ravn paid a tribute every bit as majestic as the magnificent trees the song immortalised. Here the canvas is wider still. Nature itself is dying and Ravn has something to say. But no hippy anthem this. You get fast and pounding and a chorus that manages sad and uplifting and furious. But the fear and trembling finds peace at last in “The Field”. Here the message has nothing to do with destruction. It’s all about the simple dream of life on the land. The melody sways like a drinking song. Enjoy it because things are about to get ugly.
“Lost at Sea” runs for almost 17 minutes. Hell it’s almost an EP in its own right. In fact hell it’s a trip into hell. Not in a bad way. Just in a way that makes the song title come to life through hell-may-care prog twist and turns like a ship tossed in a merciless storm. You’ll have to listen to this one a few times. Quite a few times. After that you won’t stop listening to it. The song and the album that is._________________________________________________________________
ჩემი უაღრესად კრიტიკული შეფასებაა 9.9 / 10 - დან. უდაოდ შედევრია.
And no one shall mark the grave of the last man... © wuthering Heights
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Download (Global) This post has been edited by Lanius on 5 Aug 2010, 21:32
Folk/Viking Metal
