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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good death metal album, April 20, 2004
Ok, what we have here is a melodic death metal album, some might not even, because of the guitars not even catagorise them death, but their vocals point out clearly that it is death metal, and I've seen them live twice now, and they're definately death.
Now on to the music, it's an album with quit some speed in it, but not it's pretty melodic so never really gets brutal, though you can headbang good to it ;-) Almost all the songs are pure higher range death metal vocals, with two songs that have SOME clean vocals. Some of their songs are just nice, some are pretty emotional, but never becoming really exilent, but very nice to listen to none the less.
All in all four stars.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Overall a good melodic death album, February 16, 2005
First of all while Immortal Souls are described as being a cross between In Flames and Children of Bodom, they aren't nearly as good as either of those two bands. My main complaint with the cd in my opinion, is that the vocals sound terrible. For some reason they just don't fit in very well with the instruments and they sound too raspy and not forcefull enough. The instruments all sound really good on here with the guitars standing out the most. Another problem I had with this cd is that the whole "wintermetal" gets old rather quickly. Overall this is a good cd thats worth adding to your collection and hopefully Immortal Souls will continue to grow into their sound a bit more for their next release.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
coldest thrash metal around, March 10, 2004
I usually describe these guys as "Children of Bodom without keyboards." But really, that doesn't do it justice; no such comparison ever does, and it should be used only as an introductory point. Hovering somewhere around the thrash metal / melodic death metal neighborhood, these young musicians all show skill here, but it is in the interplay of guitars that the true beauty shines through. Several songs are instant classics, particularly "Welcome to North" and "Sacrifice." Lyrically, they are still praising the holy northern frost and its creator. I'm still a little undecided on the use of clean vocals on some of the later tracks, but I find myself singing along, so I guess it's okay with me. The production is a little warmer on this album than it was on "Under the Northern Sky", which is slightly better than this album (in particular, I prefer "Northern Sky's" drum production). But, it will still frost over your CD player. These Finnish youths show a lot of promise, and so far they are living up to it. Best of luck to them in all future endeavors.
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