Legenda Aurea - Sedna - guest review
Legenda Aurea - Sedna - guest review
Tracklist
01. Intro02. Vengeance
03. War Victim
04. Sedna
05. It's Over
06. Years Of Coldness
07. Total Eclipse
08. Instrumental
09. As The Leaves Fly
10. Farewell
Guest review by
ErnilEnNaur March 13, 2011
There is something special about bands where the creative force is the keyboard player because they have a different approach to songwriting than guitarists. This is also true of Legenda Aurea's keyboardist and primary songwriter Renato Trinkler. He certainly follows in the footsteps of Tuomas Holopainen in that he is both a great melody-maker and a visual composer, whose music inspires scenes to form in the listener's mind. This makes Sedna not just a consistently good album with one great track following another, but also a great album for an escapist like myself. These songs are so well-written and rich with ideas that you will end up discovering a new favorite every time you listen to the album. In the end, I settled for the closing track "Farewell" as the highlight of Sedna. This absolute gem of a song demonstrates best how Legenda Aurea make symphonic arrangements an essential part of their music and use them to complement the main melodies, they don't just leave them floating around on the background. Only two songs on the album are easily forgettable: the intro, which features a somewhat silly spoken monologue and one instrumental track, but even those songs aren't bad, they just aren't anything special.
The lyrics are dark, as is the case with many debut albums in this genre, but they're also beautiful and can be very poetic. For example: "Predicting the cold/ Each tree desolates his dress/ Abandoned in eternal winter/ Our endeavors have lost all sense". I've always liked bands that tell stories through lyrics and Legenda Aurea do this very well. These dark, but wonderful lyrics and the fantastic melodies they accompany are performed with elegance and sincerity by vocalist Claudia Hofer. Unfortunately her voice is a little bit too quiet and lacks power, her low notes are often overpowered by the instruments. This isn't so much Claudia's fault as it is a problem with the production, which is far from great and Sedna's only true weakness.
If Sedna should ever receive a re-release where the quality of the production equals the quality of the songwriting, then my rating will be closer to a 9 than a 7. Fans of female fronted symphonic metal: this one is highly recommended.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 6 |
Written by ErnilEnNaur | March 13, 2011
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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I have failed to get a hold of this album. I have listened to their follow up album Ellipsis and I loved it to bits. On the basis of Ellipsis alone, in no way did the band remind me of nightwish..but then again, that was a new album with a new female vocalist. I will endeavor to look for this album and give u feed back Nice review though..
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Account deleted Written by BudDa on 18.03.2011 at 18:46 Thanks. Ellipsis was indeed a far cry from Nightwish as well as Legenda Aurea's debut. They started out as a symphonic power metal band, but then became much more progressive with Ellipsis. A step, which I personally didn't like at all. I like "Sedna" a lot more. I await your feedback 
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3 months later....(sorry, had completely forgotten about this) Yeah, I do agree with u a great deal on "Sedna". Its so nightwish-esque. I really don't mind though coz its also an enjoyable album coz i find myself going back to it time and again. Its not ground-breaking stuff either but for some reason ever since I listened to Ellipsis, I developed a soft spot for this band. I enjoyed this one as well.. 7.4 is only fair
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