Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails - review
Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails - review
Band
Wilderun Release date
September 21, 2012 Tracklist
01. The Cracking Glow02. Suncatcher
03. How Stands The Glass Around?
04. Storm Along
05. Vaunting Veins
06. The Coasts Of High Barbaree
07. The Dying Californian
A review by
Susan October 07, 2012
And thus begins the saga of Olden Tales & Deathly Trails: an album for lovers of folk metal but one that just approaches it a little differently. It's hard to put your finger on HOW they're different. Perhaps it's the variation in instruments, in tempos, and that this isn't just a non-stop assault. In fact, it's rarely an assault at all. The use of acoustic guitars and mandolin during the more intense parts of some songs, plus the sheer variety in others, makes me feel like Wilderun sometimes listens to people like Gogol Bordello and the Diablo Swing Orchestra in addition to all the classic folk metal bands we know and love.
Both epic and straight forward, symphonic and bare, and with well-done clean and extreme vocals, if there is something you love about folk metal then Wilderun does it. The best part is that despite the variety this is remarkably streamlined and cohesive. They really find the shining middle ground between everything that is good and wonderful and badass about the genre. Perhaps overall it's a bit more on the melodic side of things, but it's free of cheese. No, that's totally a lie; it's just not cheesy in the same way most melodic folk is. There are no flute solos, no female vocals, and no visions of smiling fairies dancing in an open field to welcome the rising sun. Nope. This is the kind of cheese that makes you defensive about it. "So? It's cheesy. The fuck you gonna to do about it, huh?!" Then you bitchslap the hater and give the album another spin.
Listen at Bandcamp.
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It does indeed remind me a LOT of Turisas. But these guys are much more competent at their instruments, making everything more interesting. Hopefully in the next albums they will have a more unique sound though. But anyway a nice album!
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Bit suprised, I had lost almost all interest in new folk metal bands but these guys are quite good. Sounds like a more "guitarish" first album of Turisas  .
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Nice album, both epic and straightforward, as you said in the review. Yes, they are similar to Turisas, but thats a good thing for fans like me 
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I love this album because it's actually AMERICAN folk metal. Not that I'm some patriotic moron, but so many American folk metal bands are just trying to chase Ensiferum's coattails, and for that reason the American folk metal scene is mostly a bunch of bland cliched crap. But Wilderun is a breath of fresh air...playing glorious folk metal a la Turisas, but using American folk melodies and instruments in healthy doses. The end result sounds like Aaron Copland wrote an album with Mathias Nygard, and it's awesome.
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This may be my favorite opening paragraph of a review ever.
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Posts: 6941 Written by WinterMadness on 25.02.2014 at 07:31 Dude, not sure how I missed this comment before! I would SO buy that album  Lol awesome. Now I'm imagining Copland as a metal artist and it's making me smile
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