Romanticizing with national heritage, war and nature is easily labelled as to something not politically correct in these times. If you are a pussy. However, Norrhem is not and is delivering the goods with a firm grip and also fails to fall into the vast mediocrity even though the album is not flawless. The atmosphere itself makes this album worthwhile to listen.
The pace is mainly set on quite fast mode yet it flows nicely and especially the drums bring nice dynamics to the music in vein of few finnish counterparts. Melodic guitar riffs are infused with some raw edge and bass, well, the bass is there and audible. Regarding the vocals, they don’t offer anything superb in their mid-low rattling but deliver what is needed. The album itself is built nicely, the flow from track to another is smooth and always so important dynamics have been remembered in songs themselves as well as in the album as a whole. Still there is this small thing of similarity between almost every melodic guitar riff which of course can be described also as a stylistical continuum but in the long run it does turn out to wear the listener a bit.
Still, the aforementioned is a small flaw, so if you are into something which has a nice overall atmosphere of war and nationalistic pride, this just might be your thing!
78/100
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