Band:	Thronar
Album:	Promo 2003
Style:	Atmospheric black metal, Folk metal
Release date:	2003
A review by:	Undercraft

01. Bonded To The Blade Part I (Gift From The Gods)
02. Bonded To The Blade Part II (Screams Of Thunder)
03. Where Sword, Axe, And Bow Strike Together
04. Crimnor Valora

What's the deal with all these bands obsessed with medieval times? I mean, one or two are fine, but there's a whole trend now! And I hate trends, because with trends every product tends to be less and less original.

So what we have here is not Power Metal , not Viking Metal, but Battle Metal, what the hell is Battle Metal? Well, basically is Heavy Metal with Black Metal elements, sure it sounds nice, but let's go song by song, there are only 4 of them , but hey, I got nothing to do right now.

The first song "Bonded To The Blade Part I" sounds like a classic Heavy Metal song with folky keyboards and Black Metal voice, the problem comes when the singer displays his "clean" voice, he tries to sound somewhat "heroic" but he just sounds plain funny. And annoying.

"Bonded To The Blade Part 2" is more straight Black Metal, with those "heroic" clean voice again, nothing to listen here, let's move on to the next one, "Where Sword, Axe, And Bow Strike Together" (something is bound to be broken there if you ask me?), Anyway I just can't stand that clean singing, but the song has really good keyboards and guitar soloing.

Finally "Crimnor Valora" comes to wrap thing up with a touch of elegancy, nice song, great arrangements, definitively the best of the four songs.

These guys need work, to find their sound, to polish the musicianship, to come up with better ideas. I hope next time we hear about these young warriors they offer something superior than this, with better production, a title, and a more imaginative cover art!