Good review. Really pleases me to see even this band doing better than Children of Bodom. CoB were pretty much the first to really go noticed for this genre of metal. Kalmah and Norther were the sort of "followers" but even they seem to be surpassing CoB right now because ever since CoB started caring so much for the mainstream, breaking their loyalty to the true fans, they've begun to sound like something that should be thrown away a.s.a.p. But this isn't about the crappy CoB, it's about Norther. And this was better than their last release, making it (like Undercraft said) their second best, after Dreams of Endless War.

i like this one a lot, but i dont see why everyone has death unlimited ranked higher.

I agree with everyone for the most part. It's deffiently not Norther's best work by all means. One thing needs to be made clear though, Children of Bodom and Norther are not as similar as people would like to think. When "Dreams of Endless War" came out it was shortly after Bodom's "Somthing Wild". Bodom was using Ibenez guitars, hence making their sound diffrent. Norther stuck with the same basic guitar sound during thier first album. So, the question is, who is really relating what to what. Is Bodom somewhat taking off Norther. Then you have to consider each band's sophmore albums "Hatebreeder" & "Mirror Of Madness". two completly diffrent things. Sure, they are both melodic Finnish metal. But since Hatebreed really capitlized for Bodom, and everyone, including myself, loves that album it may be assumed that Bodom really were the initiators of the sound. But really Norther had a more Bodom sound to begin with. The diffrence that has really stuck out is that Norther uses alot more keyboard voices. I just wanted to express my view on everybody comparing every single band with fast solos as screaming vocals to Bodom. As first this album it really kind of disapointed me in away. But then again, this is comeing off listening to "Dreams of Endless War" and "Mirror of Madness". "Till Death Unites Us' in my opinion, by no means, is a bad album. "Evil Ladies" is an awesome song that really got to what Norther is all about. A catchy chorus and kick ass solos. I do think Norther is somewhat running out of material though for their lyrics. "Fuck You" made me laugh more than anything allthough it is catchy. Over all, I think the only thing that really bothers me about the album is too many mid tempos. In a way the songs allways leave you wanting more but in a bad way. Norther still has my respect, and I love the album, but we all know they can do better.

my fiance is mad because i wrote more about metal than i did her

It's a good album, no question about it. I like the sound, but how I want them to go back to their old sound from the two first albums! :

The song that rulezz this album is 'Norther'

I think it's an awesome album really. Not necesserly underrated, but it's deffinitly catchy. I will give it a 8.