Description

A5 digipak cover with a bonus instrumental cd

Wintersun’s third album that has been five years in the making and the idea of a season concept has probably been done before. Yet this album gives a whole new face to it. It consists out of four huge epic songs, each of them reflecting one of the seasons. The songwriting is quite simple compared to previous Wintersun albums but it’s still top of the class. The guitars bring long repetitive riffs on this one. The diversity of the sound is created by lots of variations on an instrumental idea. Lead sections bring forth melodic ideas, blending perfectly with the vocals and the instrumental background. Vocals show beautiful clean singing, lots of harsh vocals, massive choirs and Jukka’s low heavy death growls. The orchestration is also a lot easier to grasp than what happened on the Time album. You will find that overall, this album is a bit tuned down from the extreme complexity of songwriting and in terms of sound mixing as well. What is really special about this sound is that it can easily reflect different moods and ideas, so that the songs that are quite different from each other still have a common vibe and complement each other beautifully. It opens with Spring, probably the most powerful part of the whole album. Overall this song feels like breathing new life, then comes the war summer before takes a turn for the dark side, with the autumn song before youre left alone in the snow on the perfect ending with the Winter song. And on that note the cycle is complete. Overall and amazing album where its easy to just get lost in the beauty of it.

Track list:
1. Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring)
2. The Forest That Weeps (Summer)
3. Eternal Darkness (Autumn)
4. Loneliness (Winter)

Disc 2:
5. Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring)-instrumental
6. The Forest That Weeps (Summer)-instrumental
7. Eternal Darkness (Autumn)-instrumental
8. Loneliness (Winter)-instrumental