Review Summary: contains fast guitar riffs and excellent pitched vocals. Plus, most of the tracks have amazing lyrics containing darkness, death and sorrow.
After two excellent demos “Bard’s Burial” and “The Seven Godesses Frost”, the first album of EToS..Sinner;s Serenade was made.
Taking the CD as a whole, the first image we get from this finish band, is one who has a very particular sound. Both guitar players Jarmo Puolakanaho and Olli - Pekka Törrö, can perfectly fuse both lead and rythmic guitars, creating catchy tunes that can get stuck in your mind easily.
Although the album, has quite a ryhtym, that forces the listener to just headbang and join the music gladly, the whole atmoshpehe brakes at track 5 “Into The Deepest Waters”: a piece with absolutly no lyrics which is quite a dissapointing. It gives the impresion, that it was an unfinished song, but with the heavy riffs its a great intrumental track.
Probably the best songs through out the whole cd are "The Law of The Flames", " My god The Evil Wind", “Bard’s Burial” and “ The Son Of The Forest”. Maybe because this 4 tracks are flawless in any aspect and capture the whole escense of Eternal Tears of Sorrow. A pure sound of trash metal, that would later on fuse to symphonic death metal, but still lingering and still present in every tune.
The strong lyrics are about sorrow, darkness and death, are perefectly fitted in the tracks, making an awesome record all together.Its defenitly a must have cd in every metalheads collection.
