Winters Bane - Redivivus

*=Staff's pick	Seal The Light Spark To Flame The World Dead Faith Catching The Sun Remember To Forget* Burning Bridges Waves Of Fury Despise The Lie*

Genre	Heavy Metal	Alexander Koch	Vocals
Tracks	9	Lou St.Paul	Guitar
Runningtime	41 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Metal Heaven	Jeff Welch	Bass
Release	30 June 2006	Mark Cross	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Iced Earth

Winters Bane released their debut album already in 1993, then with Tim "Ripper" Owens as singer. But this is only their third official album. Two split ups have made the band's history quite stretched out. Now they are back with a third singer, Alexander Koch (guitarist and band leader Lou St.Paul handled the microphone himself on Girth). Koch sounds a bit strained, or sometimes - as in Dead Faith - even false, when he tries the higher tones. Why even put yourself in a position where you try to sing on a level that doesn't fit your range? The answer is of course influences and rule models. A glorified picture of how it is supposed to sound. Unfortunately it seldom becomes interesting to sound like everyone else if you don't have a decent song material to work with.

Redivivus is at its best a standard heavy metal album with some traces of power metal. Seal The Light and Spark To Flame cannot manage to grasp attention. It takes all too long time before the compositions start to reach out of the grey mass. Remember To Forget, with its groovy riff stands out just a bit. Despise The Lie is another song that simply nags itself into your conscious. Worth to note is that Mark Cross (Firewind, ex. Metalium, ex. Helloween) is back behind his drums after his sickness (that forced him to leave Helloween shortly after he joined them).

Production	Vocals	Compositions
5	5	5

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - David