Amorphis: 'Skyforger'

I’m shooting a left-field this week and promoting a death/metal album. I’m so far out of my depth with this genre of music I don’t even know where to begin so I’ll just comment on what I hear. The album is beautiful and very melodic, almost playing like a progressive rock album in structure. The songs themselves are clearly very well structured and are testament to the fact that the band can write catchy songs and actually play their instruments well. When the singer ventures into scary death growl vocals on a few of the tracks, I am not so much out of my depth, more swimming with a pool of hungry man-eating sharks! That is, I’m petrified just to listen to the damn thing. However, luckily these tracks are few and far between, just forward these ones and enjoy some truly great tracks which are contained within, be patient with this one and rewards will be dearly reaped.