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Arriving today from Sun & Moon Records, we have Canada’s A Winter Lost with their sophomore release “Die längste Nacht”. In this 12 track release we have a very retro sound that ultimately fails to impress due to the lack of creativity through the majority of this release. Featuring a female growler/singer, we can’t really find anything else that would make this band standout from the rest. Opening with “Des Falken Tod”, the band delivers raw distorted guitars and a very powerful sound. While this is impressive at first, the next six songs go around the same basic foundations and never really take off with anything original or complex. The riffing is intense, the drumming is fast, but this is a must for any ‘average’ BM band, so there are no cookie points for that. Is not until the last minute of “Zeichen” that they even attempt something different in their music, the same continues until the second half of the closing track, when the tempo changes and the clean female vocals appear. While we marginally enjoyed the band’s first album, “Weltenende”, we said almost the same thing in that review. The band lacks originality and they have continued to pursue their music career without it. The grim and raw atmosphere can only take you so far, and when it always sounds the same, you are better off listening to some other more interesting release on Sun & Moon Records. |
Band: A Winter Lost | Album: Die längste Nacht |
Label: Sun & Moon Records |
Release: November 26th, 2013 |
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Genre: Black Metal |
Country: Canada |
Rating: 72/100 |