Winters Verge – Beyond Vengeance (2012)

Today we have Cyprus very own Winters Verge delivering one of the most impressive Power Metal releases of 2012 with “Beyond Vengeance”. The band nicely provides a worthy follower to their very well crafted 2010 release “Tales of Tragedy”, with more intricate and more bombastic songs that nicely explore the band’s rich sound and dramatic take on the genre.

Since the opening piece “Cunning Lullabies”, Winters Verge delivers intelligently crafted music that is both catchy and powerful: the perfect combination in Power Metal. The keyboards are very dramatic and the overall riffing of this track is very dynamic, making it a truly delightful listening experience. With the very traditional “Paper is Blank”, the band shows that they can make old-school sounding songs with their modern and fresh edge. The vocals of George Charalambous are just outstanding and make this song even more magical.

Exploring a ‘heavier’ side of things, “Unto the Darkness” explores with deeper vocals and a bit more ‘regular’ Metal oriented riffing. This song structure is full of nice details, particularly the bass guitar and the super catchy chorus section. The dramatic “Not without a Fight” is one of our favorite tracks of this album due to its powerful guitar work, excellent solos and extremely catchy passages. The next highlight in this release is the power ballad “One Last Night”. In this emotional track the guitar work of Harry Pari and the solid keyboard melodies of Stefanos Psillides are what make this track more emotive and special.

If you are looking for heavy and powerful songs, “Threads of My Life” and “Angels of Babylon” will keep you nicely entertained. Our favorite track of this release has to be the excellently developed “Semeni”. In this track the music starts pretty slow and it nicely starts building up until an epic combination of choir arrangements, swanky vocal lines and excellent musical melody. The closer “A Dream for a Dream” leaves us with a very cinematic ending, something very fitting for such a good release.

Winters Verge has been slowly maturing into a very good band; with “Beyond Vengeance” they show that they are already there and that people should start paying attention. If you are a Power Metal fans, this is one release you should not miss.

Release: April 27th, 2012

Country: Cyprus