Review: Ereb Altor - Hälsingemörker | |||||||
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Hälsingemörker | |||||||
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Label: Hammerheart Records Year released: 2025 Duration: 45:51 Tracks: 7 Genre: Heavy Metal Rating: Review online: January 20, 2025 Reviewed by: MetalMike |
Readers' Rating How do you rate this release? Rated 4/5 (80%) (5 Votes)
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I wasn't sure what to expect from Ereb Altor's Hälsingemörker, as I'd only heard their Gastrike album and was not impressed. Other entries in their catalog have been greeted more positively and I can now hear why. Hälsingemörker is full of epic heavy metal with mainly clean singing supported by occasional harsh vocals. They work well together and there are huge, ferocious guitars and drums designed to lay waste to everything in their path. "The Last Step" is a monster of a track that should have fists in the air, and opener "Valkyrian Fate" does what a good opener should do and that's to suck the listener in. Other parts of the album, however, are saddled with repetitive riffing and vocal lines that don't vary much ("The Waves, the Sky and the Pyre," "The Lake of Blood"). These songs are Jekyll and Hyde affairs, dragging at some points then bursting with a great riff at another, so the songwriting is uneven, and you have to occasionally wait out the plodding before the excitement ramps up. There are better examples of this kind of music, but if you like epic heavy metal with some black metal enhancements, Hälsingemörker is certainly worth checking out. See below for more reviews... ↓ |
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