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Wolfchant - Embraced By Fire

Published February 20 2013


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=Staff's pick

Devouring Flames*
Embraced By Fire*
Element*
Turning Into Red
Einsame Wacht
Autumn's Breath
Freier Geist
Winter's Triumph


Genre Pagan/Folk Metal
Mario "Lokhi" Möginger
Vocals
Tracks 8
Michael "Nortwin" Seifert
Clean vocals
Running time 43 Min.
Mario "Skaahl" Liebl
Guitar
Label Noise Art Records
Ragnar
Guitar
Release 01 March 2013
Sarolv
Bass
Country Germany
Daniel "Norgahd" Liebl
Drums
Producer Andre Hofmann
Dieter "Gvern" Kasberger
Keyboard
Similar artists Varg

Third album from Germany's seven men strong pagan/folk metal outfit Wolfchant. Songwriting diversity isn't this band's strongest sign when seeing through the whole record. Each song is pretty diverse within themselves, but most songs are somewhat resemblant with epic hymns and massive chants.

Furthermore it's fast drums on and off and an explosive guitarplay with neat solos and almost constant harmony licks. The lyrics are both in English and in German and the two vocalists sing alternately with rapid changes back and forth and also together. The dark and demonic vocals are pretty good, but huge parts of the clean vocals are more spoken than sung and that's nothing I prefer.

The songs are rather captivating, but after every time I've listened to the full album, which is somewhere around fifteen times, I'm still standing on square one, because the songs are too similar. Like every other time I listen to Embraced By Fire, the closer I get to the end, the monotonous approach makes me like this release the less, even though the last songs are just as good as the first half.

Still, this is a rather good effort from the chanting horde that catches a well deserved 6 chalices. It just takes a beautiful day and a massive share of commitment and dedication to listen to the forty-three minutes of this record from start to finish.

Performance
Originality
Production
Vocals
Songwriting

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5

6

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6

 
Summary



6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe


Related links:

www.wolfchant-metal.com
www.myspace.com/wolfchant
www.facebook.com/wolfchantofficial