Euphoreon - Euphoreon - guest review
Euphoreon - Euphoreon - guest review
Tracklist
01. Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining02. Before The Blackened Sky
03. Forever Being
04. Eleventh Heaven
05. Where Dead Skies Dwell
06. From The Netherworld
07. Starnight Rider
08. Road To Redemption
Guest review by
Windrider November 10, 2011
Enough of nonsense talk, let's see what this band has to offer! The album with the witty name Euphoreon has 8 songs, almost all of an equal length. But it keeps more variety than it looks like. The first thing that pops into the metalhead's ear is: "...keyboards, orchestrations, synth sounds." Many like them, but I personally enjoy every song built on pure guitar riffs. This does not mean I don't like keyboards, in fact they improve many albums, but the songwriting changes a lot once you get in touch with synth sounds. If you are not able to resist the "easy music" faction of course... It is like playing "Chess with the Abyss", and many bands lose it. Overall, Euphoreon managed to keep on writing good riffs.
What the listener gets here are cool melodies, harsh breaks and thoughtful orchestrations. The whole album sounds like it contains ideas gathered within 10 years at least, mature is maybe a good word to describe it. There no fillers and no points where one is tempted to press the skip button. Heroic melodies make the Wintersun feeling perfect, although the lyrics are not as Alcest like as Jari's. The guitar tune lacks some bass sound but this is due to the overall higher pitched music, because so are the vocals and the instruments were kind of adapted to the vocals on this record. The riffs played on it are awesome nevertheless, many techniques flow through the songs. Back to the keyboards: I personally love those piano parts, whereas the orchestration stuff is a little bit exaggerated. The sound is good, but you know... more and more ain't always better. I am ok with that, though, since it is my only criticism of the album. Well, together with the somehow cheesy clean vocals maybe, but they are rare so it's ok!
Summing it all up is quite easy - you like Wintersun, keyboards and cool riffs? Then go grab it! You don't like cheesy sounds? Think twice about it first! You are proud of being an officer in the originality police? Get the fuck out! Euphoreon are cool, count them with the favourites in the "Debut Album of 2011" category.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written by Windrider | November 10, 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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Great review. This album is really solid and alot of varirty on this album. If you are a fan of Wintersun - this is what you can listening while waiting for Time
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Had to puke at "You like Wintersun and marry Jari Mäenpää every night in your dreams" lol
---- loves 小巫
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Youtube Hitler would appreciate this.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Posts: 684 Written by Troy Killjoy on 10.11.2011 at 20:34 lolwut
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Posts: 21306 Written by Windrider on 10.11.2011 at 21:03
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Posts: 684 Written by Troy Killjoy on 10.11.2011 at 21:05 Yeah right I almost forgot... Haha nice one
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I expected this from you  nicely written review, although I'm not too crazy about the album, I'm sure I'll have to revisit it for MS awards.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Posts: 684 Written by Milena on 10.11.2011 at 21:52 Expected, how? Same with me likely, I'd have another favourite for the debut category, if only they were featured on MS...
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Posts: 4603 Written by Windrider on 11.11.2011 at 14:15 Well you're very much into this type of metal so I figured you'd review it sooner or later
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Posts: 13 Written by FeskarN on 10.11.2011 at 12:49 x2
---- DJCynic
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