Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Luna

Hell yeah, I’m excited for this! Although I will say the vocals are weird on Throes of Atonement, but the rest was still very good. I hope that it keeps the same quality as the other two parts in this trilogy, I’ve really liked them.

I thought this is better than the last two, at least is more consistent overall. And the last one song is a great epic song...

As theology is last of their Reader Of The Runes series, I cant even decide if its best, worst or in a middle. I prefer first parts artwork, thats for sure this has weakest one.

I've been enjoying my time with the album greatly, on spin number 4 so far. My one complaint has been the guitar (mostly rhythm) getting buried by orchestrations in some parts, notably on "Season of the Owl" there is just so much going on I can barely make it out at times. Otherwise the album is fairly pristine in production, drums sound excellent, for example on the closing track's blasting section. I think the band is in great form here, closing out the Reader of the Runes trilogy in style.

Stormcarrier was the only song I liked on my first listen, then it took quite a few tries over a few weeks before I started to really like any of the rest. It's not bad but I don't think there's much to bring me back to it anymore. Feels a bit like they are scraping the bottom of the barrel with ideas on this one. They should wait a while before starting to write their next album.

Rapture was the best part of this trilogy by a pretty noticable margin.

My personal Top 3 songs from the album:

Luna
Stormcarrier
On These Haunted Shores

Enjoyed so much this one. Never stop thanking the return to their roots since The Pagan Manifiesto (even when I also enjoyed Red Silent Tides and Era).