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THE_POLE
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Topic: Moonsorrow Posted: June 03 2007 at 19:38 |
I have recently purchased Moonsorrow's latest album - Viides
Luku: Havitetty. I have heard some of their earlier output and while it
was good viking/folk metal music, there was nothing that was
particularly progressive about them.
But with the release of their new album i think that they could quite
easily fit in the prog metal section on this site. With the long
songs(25min and 30min), the symphonic and atmospheric elements, the
huge range of instruments, the classical-like song structure with
repetition of themes in order to build up an atmosphere, and of course
the 6min pink floyd-esque introduction to the first track, i would probably say that they
are a progressive symphonic black metal band. Kind of like
Borknagar i suppose, but with less 70's prog and more classical.
This band is incredible and i think they would appeal to fans of
Borknagar, Opeth, Agalloch, and really any progressive extreme or
power metal.
Is there anybody out there who agrees?
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mystic fred
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Posted: June 07 2007 at 02:01 |
they sound very interesting, found the website but can you send up some music samples?
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: June 07 2007 at 17:23 |
With average 30+ minute songs, samples are hard to come by and don't really represent the music overall. Still, I was very impressed by their most recent record
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avestin
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Posted: June 07 2007 at 17:28 |
mystic fred wrote:
they sound very interesting, found the website but can you send up some music samples?
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If you want it to send it to the prog metal team, that's ok, I'll take care of it (I have all their albums). The last one does indeed venture into progressive "realms". I like it a lot. Their previous ones were "proggish" and a lot of fun, presenting a fine "viking metal" as its called in the metal "circles". I even got my wife to love them (our favourite is Voimasta Ja Kuniasta).
Edited by avestin - June 07 2007 at 17:31
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THE_POLE
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Posted: June 08 2007 at 08:34 |
yea, i looked all over the net for samples when i first heard of them.
In the end i had to buy Havitetty and Voimasta Ja Kuniasta to hear them.
I would personally say that they didn't do anything particularly
proggy until Verisakeet. Their earlier stuff sounds more
like a cross between sonata arctica and bathory. They've since
almost completly abandoned their power-metallish influences and taken
on a darker more atmospheric style.
They may not have enough proggy material yet in order for them to be
classified as a fully progressive band, they are in my opinion at least
prog-related and im sure if they carry on in their current direction,
we can expect some very fine progressive metal from them in the future
Edited by THE_POLE - June 08 2007 at 08:37
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avestin
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Posted: June 08 2007 at 08:38 |
^^^
I think we agree.
This weekend I'll let the prog metal team have a taste (if they haven't already) and see what they think.
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