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WINTERLONG - Longing For Winter /2008


Год:2008
Страна:Sweden
Стиль:Heavy/Power Metal

Tracklist:
01. Sky Travellers I 4:21
02. Sky Travellers II 4:03
03. Northman I 4:53
04. Northman II 3:55
05. Like Ships in the Night 3:01
06. Nosferatu 3:35
07. Wild Winter Nights 5:32
08. And So We Remember 4:29
09. Each Night We Die 4:06
10. Twisting Your Tail 4:53
11. The Hunter 3:15
12. Retaliation 5:17
13. Winterlong 5:30
14. Judgement Day 3:39
15. The Prediction of M. King Hubbert 5:17
16. Dragon Breath 4:44
17. The Heartland 5:00
18. Elements 3:28

Total Time-78:58

Band:
Thorben Englund - Vocals, Guitars, Bass (Star Queen, Pavlov`s Dogs)
Lief Eriksson - Drums

Former/past member(s)
Hussni Mцrsare - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Viperine)
Erik Tornberg - Bass (Viperine, Star Queen)
Tony Erkkilд - Drums (Viperine)
Peter Uven - Bass (Star Queen)
Mikael Holm - Vocals (session in Tower of Stone)

Session Members:
Mistheria - Keyboards
Andreas Lill - Drums (Vanden Plas, Missa Mercuria, Abydos, Section A)
Anders Johansson - Drums (Art Metal, ex-Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Hammerfall, ex-Empire (Ger), ex-Silver Mountain, Jens Johansson, ex-Keegan , The Johansson Brothers, Planet Alliance)

Like most compilation albums, this newest release entitled "Longing For Winter" from Sweden's Winterlong is a good reference for those new to the band. The tracks don't flow through chronologically but there is an even spread from past Winterlong albums and this new compilation also features four brand new songs. If someone wanted to listen to each of these "half albums" in order it would of course be only too easy. Perhaps it is better to listen to Longing For Winter that way if one is mainly interested in using the album as a research tool. For everyone else it's an interesting intertwining of progressed Heavy/Power metal.

As one could expect Longing For Winter is a pretty varied affair. You get traditional melodic and highly catchy songs from a few years ago like the track "Northman". Then a couple of songs later you hear more simplistic and straightforward modern sounding heavy riffing with interlaced keyboards from Winterlong's more recent work (the brand new tracks that conclude this album also follow this style). Because of this diversity and interesting progression of the life of Winterlong this compilation album should have something of interest to most Power Metal fans. Longing For Winter's almost 80 minute length also provides pretty good value as well. You'd have to have a second disc to fit any more music on!

The main protagonist throughout the whole Winterlong affair, Thorbjörn Englund, is also quite a technically proficient guitarist. The track "Bloodshred" is essentially just an almost-four-minute guitar solo but it's quite technical and fast moving and is a welcome filler on this release as I'm sure it would've been on its original album.

Overall Longing For Winter is a dynamic compilation with a lot to offer. I'm not sure if there are any songs on other Winterlong albums that are better than these, making this album strictly not a "best of" but after hearing this, it makes me want to explore Winterlong's back catalogue just to find out!
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