Celtic Winter - Graveland

Description: Genre: Hard Rock & Metal / Artist: Graveland / Audio CD released at Pidm / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Intro 2 Fall Of The B ... more

Celtic Winter - Graveland ... The Black Forest
3 Hordes Of Empire
4 The Night Of Fullmoon
5 Prolog
6 The Gates To The Kingdom Of Darkness
7 The Return Of Funeral Winds

Newest Review: ... Behemoth), the sound quality is invariably bad and the atmosphere impeccable, and the music takes great influence from the ... more

... then-new Viking metal genre without deviating too far from its black metal roots. This is slow, ponderous, raw, atmospheric black metal with some memorable riffs, drenched in ambient keyboards, and while he's no Quorthon or Varg Vikernes, born-again Viking Rob Darken certainly impresses and leaves promise for the future. This isn't traditional Viking metal, something evidenced by the continued use of black metal croaks and warbling guitars, but there's enough obvious influence to make this appeal to fans of Bathory o...more

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Celtic Winter - Graveland: The Celtic Winter (208 words)
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Released in 1996 as a mini album, 'The Celtic Winter' is a slightly rearranged version of Graveland's 1994 demo, which had already been granted partial official release as a shortened E.P. As a Polish black metal demo from the early nineties (think Behemoth), the sound quality is invariably bad and the atmosphere impeccable, and the music takes great influence from the then-new Viking metal genre without deviating too far from its black metal roots. This is slow, ponderous, raw, atmospheric black metal with some memorable riffs, drenched in ambient keyboards, and while he's no Quorthon or Varg Vikernes, born-again Viking Rob Darken certainly impresses and leaves promise ... Read the complete review