Saturday, March 17, 2018

Etherial Winds - Find the Way... Together (1995)

   The first look may be enough already to expect some depressive-romantic background about the one and only album of Etherial Winds.
   The visual impression is partly correct, depressive issues are in focus, but it's more like about the outcomes of anxious struggles than only tender woes. This is the reflection of piled up negative experiences and the hopeless tryings to get out from the depths. The musical performance is way more aggressive and intense than it used to be at similar albums. Mostly the melancholic atmosphere and the lyrical background are reminding to the main concept, the signs of inner collapse are only occasional. Rageful deep growling and harsh riffings having the leading role, the atmosphere and the concept could have only small influence on that to create the required gloomy negative balance and may sound brighter than how it was planned. The album slipped from the border more into death metal, and this way it also couldn't be sorted to any of the most common directions of death/doom. Still it's a barely known, enjoyable death/doom classic assisted by the usual good quality sound of Dutch metal.

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