Nordheim Show lyrics loading lyrics Im Fackelschein instrumental loading lyrics Tote Heldensagen Show lyrics loading lyrics Wald der Freiheit instrumental loading lyrics Shingo Murata Show lyrics loading lyrics Gaby Koss Vocals female. Read Hazy Production Clouding Added by: Slight Modified by: yanlongtea Added on: Last modified on: Features Blog Facebook Leave a Reply Name required Mail will not be published required Privacy notice: When you submit a comment, your creditentials, message and IP address will be logged.
In fact, the inadequate execution and poor mixing seems much like a shameful cover-up of feigned quality, blocking the way to the best part: the songwriting itself. Their demo was brilliant, so I had very high expectations of Equilibrium's first full-length album Turis Fratyr.
And right the way across this album, those expectations were met. Every song showcases exactly how good the mix of genres this band uses work together and there isn't a dull point on this album. There are five of the tracks from the demo on this record, but I'd be lying if I said that I was shocked and felt that they shouldn't have done that.
In all honesty I would be more worried if they'd passed up the opportunity to re-use them. They're all excellent songs anyway, and it doesn't affect the quality of the album in any way. Once again, the lyrics of the songs are in German, just as the titles are.
I can tell you that much, but not really anything else beyond that. The most likely answer as to what the vocalist is snarling about is the typical myths and legends about vikings and the like.
Lyrics don't mean much to me, so nothing's lost by the use of a foreign language. That's not really what epic metal is about anyway. The keyboard is an unusual entity because it doesn't sound like the keyboard in most bands. It's higher and has a very distinct tone to it. I described it as sounding like a flute at times in my review for the band's demo, and that same sound is present again here. Yet despite being such an unusual sound it fits in so well with everything else. That's even weirder given that it contrasts to much with the other instruments, but it feels like it belongs there.
The guitars and drums are for the most part fairly plain and deliver the power that you'd expect from viking metal, but they do more than what's required of them and I find them very nice to listen to.
They could just play the same thing on repeat for the entirety of the album, but they choose not to and add something extra to the band. Perhaps it's to accommodate the keyboard, but the guitars create melodic sections of their own as well. A lot of the stuff across this album has a similar sort of feel to it, and although that is in no way a bad thing when Equilibrium do it so well, the slightly different Tote Heldensagen wins my vote because it is a breath of fresh air.
It's longer than the other songs and has a more epic feel to it as a result, and even though it has its similarities too it has a personality of its own. It's kind of hard to place your finger on exactly what it is, but there's just something different about it. There aren't really many words to describe how good this album is, but while you're listening to it you're hardly even on planet Earth anymore.
It's just a pleasure to listen to music like this even if it isn't a genre that I'm very familiar with, and I can't see anyone disliking this album at all. However, now that many bands try to go for the exact same formula of inserting plenty of stuff into their music, the attempted uniqueness of such efforts tends to become a sort of conformity in itself, rendering the original take on the genre more fresh and interesting. Turis Fratyr may not have the overblown bombast or the uniqueness of its successor, but it simply crushes it in terms of quality.
The album is still interesting though, with the presence of many tempo changes intensity of tracks such as Wingthors Hammer and indeed the entire first half of the album, versus the slower second half and alternations between the simple and effective growls and some rasps more reminiscent of black metal in places and the rare but well-placed, slow clean singing. This is the reason why bands who only focus on sounding happy and making drinking music fail so horribly as folk metal bands while bands who take on a more serious approach to their lyrical and musical themes tend to be much more successful.
Although aggressive, the music here is also quite melodic in many places, due to the generous use of keyboards. Fortunately, however, the keyboards are used to complement the high quality guitar work and not to bury it deep in the mix as some inferior bands like to do. Furthermore, the melodies never sound overly cheesy and work very well with every other element of the music, all of which are integrated to near-perfection and individually enjoyable as well. So the production, the instrumentals, the vocals, the songwriting, the lyrics, the atmosphere, all those things are pulled off with talent and competence.
A perfect album, you ask? Not quite: after the soft, enjoyable clean section at the end of Widars Hallen come the two-and-a-half minutes of utter retardation that is Met. This is the real Equilibrium, may they be remembered for what they were once able to do. The vocals are extremely harsh but very well emoted, and Equilibrium is fond of doing those long epic screeches that Moonsorrow are well known for. I really hate to use the word "screeching", because that implies an annoying sound, but I can't find a better word to describe black vocals.
If you've got one, let me know. Absolutely fantastic stuff. The disc drags a little near the end, but it isn't too bad. Hopefully next time around they'll remain mind blowing throughout, but until then this will definitely hold as a debut.
The production is fantastic, with a great big guitar tone and a huge, orchestral sound. No complaints here. Viking and folk metal fans must check this band out, as while I don't think of them as one of the best Viking metal bands of all time, some people already do after this one album.
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