Wolfchant - Embraced By Fire |
Published February 20 2013
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Devouring Flames* |
| Genre | Pagan/Folk Metal |
Mario "Lokhi" Möginger
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 8 |
Michael "Nortwin" Seifert
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Clean vocals
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| Running time | 43 Min. |
Mario "Skaahl" Liebl
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Guitar
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| Label | Noise Art Records |
Ragnar
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Guitar
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| Release | 01 March 2013 |
Sarolv
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Bass
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| Country | Germany |
Daniel "Norgahd" Liebl
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Drums
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| Producer | Andre Hofmann |
Dieter "Gvern" Kasberger
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Keyboard
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| 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.
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Originality
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Production
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Vocals
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6 |
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Summary
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6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe |
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Related links: www.wolfchant-metal.com |
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