I love finding good melodic death metal bands, cause for me to find one, I must dwell deep into the ocean of mediocrity and find that little glowing gem.
Even though, this is their 4th album, Wolfheart are still kickin' hard and heavy, and are one of the best melodic death metal bands around. This album is taking you to a journey you cant stop, or wish at that matter.
First song here, 'Everlasting Fall', was such a great experience. Its around 10 min long, but oh boy, it bought me immediately, and I stayed until the end of the album. The Wolfheart sound hasn't changed much except for the keyboard which presence is slightly stronger here than on their previous releases.
The production and musicianship is amazing, and this easily competes with the metal elite of today. Drums and guitars sound massive which gives this album such a great atmosphere, and that's the key to Wolfheart success.
About them:
Tuomas Saukkonen shocked everyone in 2012 with his announcement that he will bury all of his metal music projects at the same time to start anew. Before The Dawn, Black Sun Aeon, Dawn Of Solace and RoutaSielu received their coup de grâce February 23rd, 2013. After years of pouring his creative juices to projects too numerous to count, since the end of 2012 Saukkonen has focused on just one labour of love, WOLFHEART.
Saukkonen recorded first album 'WINTERBORN' entirely by himself playing all the instruments and doing all the vocals, with Mika Lammassaari (Eternal Tears Of Sorrow, Mors Subita) as his only guest, playing guitar solos. 'WINTERBORN' proved a roaring critical success scoring high ratings in reviews left and right. To cap off a great year for his project, 'WINTERBORN' was elected the best debut album of 2013 in the annual Record Store Äx customers’ poll. WOLFHEART deserved to be a fully operating band. Big european / scandinavian festivals were targeted and the climax of the 2015 was the 2nd album 'SHADOW WORLD' which continued the path of critical praises and was the first product from the co-operation with Spinefarm records (Universal). After a rapid ride since the release of the debut and second album the band cleared the calender in the beginning of 2016 and started the pre-production of the 3rd album in the legendary Petrax studios (CoB, HIM, Korpiklaani etc). March 2017 started with the release 'TYHJYYS' (finnish meaning emptiness) -album via Spinefarm Records. The album received dozens of high-rated reviews across the globe.
At the beginning of 2018 the band performed in the legendary 70000tons of metal cruise (US) and Nordic Metal Cruise (SWE) and soon the band will hit the stage in Ragnarök festival in Germany. Wolfheart signed to Napalm Records. The band released their 4th album CONSTELLATION OF THE BLACK LIGHT at the of end september 2018 and started their north-american tour. Tour across the Europe will follow the Americas.
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This album is for everyone that likes to listen any kind of melodic metal, its brilliant, epic, and I love it. Just listen to this magnificent thing, you wont regret it! \m/
Line up:
Tuomas Saukkonen - Guitar, Vocals
Mika Lammassaari - Lead guitar
Joonas Kauppinen - Drums
Lauri Silvonen - Bass, backing vocals.
Links:
https://wolfheart.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/WolfheartRealm
https://www.instagram.com/wolfheartofficial/
http://www.wolfheartofficial.com/
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Wolfheart - Constellation of the Black Light / Napalm Records / 2018