I think the album is great. Don't know what you guys are listening to.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Darkwatch025



I found Aether Realm a good replacement for wintersun since they've released a a poor record.



Give them a try and tell me that Wintersun's new album is worhwhile.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

maybe if you paid darknoctus the money to take a sarcasm course he would have got it you fucking piece of shit

Album Rating: 2.5

According to their indiegogo there's a small army of them

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

All those bands use Gothenburg riffs, dm drumming, and dm vox = mdm. That's like saying Emperor are power metal because they use keys and clean vox.

power metal with harsh vocals lol

Album Rating: 3.0

AWAKEEN FROM THE DARK DARK SLUMBEEER

Album Rating: 1.5

Spring is good, but can't take the rest

Kinda late for that discussion but I must defend Maco097 a bit since both Wintersun's and Children of Bodom's earlier albums are pretty much 50% mdm and 50% power metal. Children of Bodom also had very strong neoclassical elements early on which I primarily associate with power metal. Finlands approach to mdm is just so strongly based in power metal.
I've heard bands that are strictly considered power metal that use harsh vocals and blast beats, like Pathfinder or even Dragonforce to some degree. I'd say that Wintersun sounds more like Dragonforce than Be'lakor or Insomnium. A lot more.

This discussion is stupid and redundant.

ok

Album Rating: 1.5

they are still melodeath, Melodeath isn't just one homogeneous style

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pretty much that in addition to the fact that the spectrum of subgenres is not one clear set of defined criteria where once you check some boxes BOOM it's power metal (or whatever else there may be)

Production on this isn't the best but I fail to see how it's "possibly the worst ever" when albums like Dingir and Agony exist

Or half of Nuclear Blast's recent output even

Dingir almost seem self-aware how shitty it is. In that albums case, the plastic and fabricated production kinda fits the futuristic and spacy theme. It's just another awful deathcore production but The Forest Seasons just has no right to sound this bad.

Or half of Nuclear Blast's recent output even [2]

Sad but true.

bcasey25raptor

Thank you for recommending Aether Realm. Listening to their new album "Tarot" right now and I think it's amazing so far. I still love The Forest Seasons, but this shit is great as well.

Jari can suck a dick. He basically tricked all of those Kickstarter idiots into paying for his new studio in the hopes of an album that might never come out. And that was AFTER he ran off with the advance money his label had given him.

The fact that this album is dull as hell is the icing on the shit cake.

Album Rating: 2.5

Phenomenal review.



Unlike most of you, I wanted and even expected to like this.