WOLFCHANT — Embraced By Fire (review)

WOLFCHANT — Embraced By Fire album cover Album · 2013 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Offering up a folk-power metal mashup which is spiced up by influences from symphonic metal and melodic black metal, Wolfchant's Embraced By Fire finds the band slipping over the border into full-on power metal territory. If you're of the opinion that Wolfchant lost their way when they began playing down their black metal aspects, or if you prefer the folk side of their current sound to the power metal side, you're probably not going to be too into this one, because the centre of gravity has definitely shifted at this point - in particular, aside from Lokhi's vocals there really isn't much black metal in the mix at this point. However, if you're up for power metal with folksy influences crafted by a band who've had a wide enough experience of other metal genres to really add a dose of the unexpected to proceedings, it's a solid but not exceptional album.

As a nice touch, for the limited edition the band have included a bonus disc containing a rerecording of Bloody Tales of Disgraced Lands. Frankly, I'm really not keen on album rerecordings (the rating here is based only on Embraced By Fire itself, for what it's worth) - my feeling is that bands should stand by their work and if they aren't satisfied it, use that dissatisfaction to learn and move on rather than going for a do-over - but I give Wolfchant points for finding a way to do it which doesn't feel like a complete scam. Providing the rerecording as a bonus disc for this set means everyone's happy: if you're not interested in the rerecording, you don't have to listen to it and the bonus disc can go be a coaster along with all the other bonus CDs you don't listen to, but if you are (or you didn't hear Bloody Tales the first time around) then bam, you get two albums on one set here.
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