Catamenia
Location:COLD

4.0
excellent

Review

by AlteR USER (1 Reviews)
January 2nd, 2008 | 18 replies

Release Date: 2006 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Catamenia mastered again the art of melodic black metal.

The wolves from cold Finland are back. And with their new album Location:COLD they are back in big style! But preceding the release of this ablum CATAMENIA had problems with their singer Olli Mustonen. So they replaced him on this album by Antti "Hape" Haapsamo, singer of MORS SUBITA.

If you like the predecessors "Eskhata", "Chaos Born" and "Winternight Tragedies" there is a very big chance you will like this album too. The Finns continue to walk the path the paved for themselves with catchy crunchy guitar riffs, fast and slow passages, killing drums and nicely embedded keyboards. I'd like especially to take up the keyboards. They are well played and very well composed. They are not tending to become some power metal cliche as it is nowadays for many rising bands.

Listening to the album will bring your thoughts to cold Finland as the coldness breathes upon you from their songs. The first song "The Tribe Of Eternity" is real opener. In this song CATAMENIA "sums up" how the album wil sound like. Every one of the elements on this album is immersed in this track. So if you like this track you will like the whole album. But the Finns do not stand still which is proven on the track "Coldbound". I hear here some inspiration in AMORPHIS. Even if this track is mid-tempo, CATAMENIA managed to implement here some of the black metal elements. Finnish sung "Tuhat Vuotta" continues the tradition of at least one song in their native tongue and once more combines ferocity and melodies, while the title track brings back some of those rough, clear vocals embedded into a very varied song, while "The Day When The Sun Faded Away" approaches the genre more slow- to mid-paced, with brilliant melodies. The last song on the album is W.A.S.P. cover "I Wanna Be somenody". I think this cover is managed very well.

The typical wolf cover, catchiness of the songwriting are the typical CATAMENIA elements. They have found their style and sticking to it. And that is good!

Rating: 4

-J. Kucera

user ratings (70)

3.4
great

Rank: #0 for 2006

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discussion

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Comments:

foreverendeared January 3rd 2008 14720 Comments	well this is a little too short to be considered a review. more like a soundoff

AlteR January 3rd 2008 7 Comments	Album Rating: 4.0 well, maybe it is but this is my first real review so I hope I will make some progress

Dethtrasher January 3rd 2008 2211 Comments	I think that you need to add more info in this review, or in your next. When I red this I thought that it was going to sound like Kalmah or Children Of Bodom. But when I checked on another site, the author wrote that this was more like symphonic black metal. Dimmu Borgir stuff and similar bands. Anyway, welcome to the site!

AlteR January 3rd 2008 7 Comments	Album Rating: 4.0 tthank you for your advice, I'll keep it in my mind

Zoo January 3rd 2008 3759 Comments	Album Rating: 3.5 DB pales in comparison with this band.

Tyler Emeritus January 3rd 2008 7927 Comments	Making the hilarious and stupid assumption that this would sound anything like CoB or Kalmah is your own fault.

ZapatoDiablo January 3rd 2008 167 Comments	I really like the vocals on this album, but the mix job is pretty sloppy. It sounds like a bit of a jumbled mess when there are lots of things going on.

SynGates January 3rd 2008 2467 Comments	well this is a little too short to be considered a review. more like a soundoff There's been shorter than this...the length is fine but it could use some more content.

AlteR January 4th 2008 7 Comments	Album Rating: 4.0 I agree with SynGates...I've chosen this length because whe I was reading a long review I stopped in the middle...it bored me. So that's why this is how it is. SynGate: You're right about the content. I will do my best to improve myself next time...

BallsToTheWall March 18th 2008 51215 Comments	Album Rating: 2.0 Holy hell, how did I miss this? This is great.

FR33L0RD May 13th 2008 6401 Comments	Album Rating: 3.0 good melodic black metal band

Crysis Emeritus July 8th 2008 17624 Comments	Album Rating: 3.5 Excellent album, love it.

Rugter32 December 18th 2008 754 Comments	Album Rating: 3.5 Just listened to this album again, and it's as good as always. Never been big on Black Metal, but this band slays. Gallery of Fear is too damn awesome to believe it. And The Day When The Sun Faded Away is so great it's not even funny. Catamenia's best album? You bet.

Zoo December 18th 2008 3759 Comments	Album Rating: 3.5 They're probably one of the most consistently excellent symphonic mbm bands in existence (until now?). I'm not too sure about their new album though. It's a little bit of a step out of character for them. There's the usual stuff, and then there's also bits of melodic death and alt. metal with some clean vocals. I really don't know what to think.

Hyperion1001 Emeritus January 9th 2010 25711 Comments	To be quite honest, i really don't like this album. It's very weak compared to their older material, especially something like Morning Crimson. The vocals are pretty bad as well. They're much to low and muddy for my tastes.

blazebaileyfinnegan3 April 21st 2011 276 Comments	The album title and cover are hilariously epic

Shuyin February 9th 2016 14924 Comments	Album Rating: 4.0 Tuhat Vuotta is my jam

Hawks February 9th 2016 86681 Comments	I haven't jammed these guys in years.

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