Where The Shadows Lie - Battlelore Reviews
Newest Review: ... fragile genre that can all too easily lapse into symphonic pomposity, tedium or mainstream mush. Battlelore's albums are a ... more
... little bit of each.
The most immediately obvious aspect of their style is the duet between Patrick Mennander's near-death metal growls and Kaisa Jouhki's light singing, a style practiced by many gothic metal bands following the "beauty and the beast" approach of Theatre of Tragedy among others. This is inherently flawed due to Mennander not pulling his weight, as his growl sounds frankly embarrassing, and the few times he drifts into a more standard, bassy style of spoken word in songs like 'Raging Goblin' it...more
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Battlelore Where The Shadows Lie Last Update 17.06.2013 16:02
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Where The Shadows Lie Battlelore Release Date: 2010 - 08 - 23, Audio CD, Napalm Last Update 17.06.2013 15:31
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Customer Where The Shadows Lie - Battlelore Reviews (1)
by - written on 21/03/08, updated on 21/03/08 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy works have long been a source of inspiration for heavy metal bands, and despite some significant crossover with the darker side of black metal (most obviously Count Grischnackh a.k.a. Varg Vikernes), it's most closely associated with the swords and sorcery sagas of European power metal. To their credit, Finland's Battlelore have approached the task in a different way than the hordes of Blind Guardian imitators, but this also sees their style become significantly removed from a power metal sound and more towards the gothic metal side of things, a fragile genre that can all too easily lapse into symphonic pomposity, tedium or mainstream mush. ... Read the complete review
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