Wyrd - Elvenking > Reviews > Medieval music with a modern, hearty metal feel.

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Standard
Quality and consistency of tracks	A couple of weak links
How does it compare to the artist's other releases	Average
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	happy feel good music
Disadvantages:	weakest album by Elvenking

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Absolutely fantastic. This band play tracks that are very medieval but slightly souped up and given a modern feel. I love history and this album really fits the bill. If you have seen the film A Knights Tale, near the beginning they are singing Queens WE Will Rock You and it kinda works, well Elvenking are like that, their music fits with the medieval period as well as now.

Not to be considered Heavy Metal I still think this is a very apppealing band to ardent Metal fans, especially if you like Power Metal some of the more inrtense tracks have some real decent guitar solo's. Some of the tracks are very uptempo but they have a real good happy feeling to them. One or two of the tracks have snippets of growling like they have in Gothic Metal, but it actually fits and the tracks it is on, they are not inundated with it. Most of the tracks are about fantasy things such as Elves etc, which is no bad thing. This is the sort of thing in the hearts of most people that enjoy things such as Lord of the Rings etc. Other tracks are relating to the medieval times or the Dark Ages. For me this is not the best of Elvenkings albums, I do prefer their other albums, but if you like this one you will love the others. 

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The band playing live