Winterstorm - Cathyron

Published February 04 2014

*=Staff's pick	A Hero Rises Cathyron* Far Away Burning Gates* Windkeepers Down In The Seas The Maze Elders Of Wisdom* Metalavial The Evocation Call Of Darkness* The Elements' Strife

Genre	Power Metal	Alexander Schirmer	Vocals
Tracks	12	Armin Haas	Guitar
Running time	56 Min.	Michael Liewald	Guitar
Label	NoiseArt Records	Peter Cerveny	Bass
Release	07 February 2014	Sebastian Albrecht	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboard
Producer	Armin Haas/Stephan Ernst
Similar artists	---

Winterstorm's third full length album shows kind of ordinary and standardized power metal. With elements of quires, medieval stuff and everything else that this genre holds and breathes, the band finds a somewhat bombastic and unrestrained appearance. Chiefly this present power metal has a speedier approach, a pretty attractive exposure without distinct powerful impacts to fill all vacant spaces in the hour of need.

They set the aims high with youthful expressions and they handle the cards fairly well, but also almost never got them in spades, as most songs don't find the last details to reach over the brims. This release includes mainly decent tracks with a few higher points delivered. Like the title track that shows some speed, Burning Gates with its fast and magnetic chorus, the heavier and partly epic track Elders Of Wisdom and also Call Of Darkness with heavy riffing, a neat solo and loud, pompous quires.

Although I like these above mentioned tracks and perhaps also a few more, none of them strike like lightning to fill my needs to levels of bliss. What I'm looking for is a more forceful grade and probably a little more variation throughout the record. In my ears this deal is indeed tolerable, yet a bit distant from what I would call a complete success that passes all tests with elegance.

It's absolutely remote from groundbreaking, most of the stuff feels sort of dated and it's not fully legitimate or reliable enough all through to get my full approval. The final decisive effects to produce a full-blown magnificent experience are absent. Still a rather all right album from time to time and therefore I hand out 5 chalices to the German metallers.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
5	2	6	6	5

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe