The End of the Halcyon Age [Import]

Twilight Ophera | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 30, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Low Frequency
• ASIN: B000E994PO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Epic Metal, January 30, 2005

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Wickerman (Indian Territory) - See all my reviews

This review is from: End of a Halcyon Age (Audio CD)

This is a very powerful, melodic, and epic-sounding metal release from these Finnish lads. Fast, precise drumming, good guitar work and black-metal type vocals (along with some clean vocals). A comparison to this band would be recent Borknagar. Quality stuff, if a bit repetitive at times. If you like Children of Bodom, Borknagar, etc., you will probably dig this.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent, December 19, 2006

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11hobo11 (Fairfax, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: End of a Halcyon Age (Audio CD)

I picked this album up at random while at the store one time. I was pretty wary since I'm usually not much of a doom metal person. I was wrong, this is definitely a good album for the overall metal fan. If you are not into darker bands, you will probably not like this album. The progression of songs is interesting too, as the vocals switch from death to clean often. There are epic sounding songs, as well as thrash/speed sounding songs as well. I think it works out well. This is by far not one of the most defining metal albums to date, but it's certainly a good buy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, December 2, 2006

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G. Owen Wears (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: End of a Halcyon Age (Audio CD)

Contrary to some reviewers opinions, I found this to be a top notch Metal album. A familiarity with the Black and Thrash Metal sub-genre's would be a bonus when deciding to purchase the CD. There isn't much point if you don't care for extreme Metal in the first place. Take it from a vehement Metal fan: This is a solid and entertaining release. At first this CD sounds very much like Norway's Ancient. As the album progresses, however, the riffing becomes more solid, the songs speed up and they restructure into a Kalmah, or Eternal Tears of Sorrow-esque Blackened Thrash Metal style. I would recommend this release for fans of the aforementioned bands and give hails to the mighty Finnish Twilight Opera.