Year : 2021
Style : Epic Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 100 mb
Bio:
Epic Heavy Metal from Texas.From the ‘Untitled Demo’ in 2020 to ‘Thurmecia Eternal’ it seems that a lot of development happened, when this started it was a one man show and now we have better vocals, a whole band, merchandise and a label. And from what I am listening to right now I can say this is well deserved and it will be celebrated by the epic metal community. Musically there are influences felt and heard of RAINBOW, ETERNAL CHAMPION and, of course, CIRITH UNGOL. If you like the mentioned bands and have a soft spot for theatrical metal that is not the usual mainstream stuff the big labels shove down our throats you might fall in love with the songs about the boreal kingdom of Thurmecia, betrayal, murder and vengeance.We are barbarians. Our Metal is barbaric. Witness us and despair, if you must pitiful mortals.Ryghär was an idea, a need to tell this story, the fall of Thurmecia, the ziggurat esoternium and the worlds beyond, a story beyond time. I started writing and recording the skeleton of what will become Thurmecia Eternal seriously in the dark late months of 2019, the cold winter nights gave way to the spring and the finding of the other members of the Silver Company. Now we stand six strong AND ready to tell our story and share these songs with everyone.
Album:
Debut full-length album of exquisite barbaric epic metal.released September 23, 2021.“One year and eight months ago, I made the acquaintance with Ryghar Highwind, Commander of the barbarian horde ‘The Silver Company’. We met in a Thurmecian Pub called Insta-Gram and got along right from the start as we both are quite fond of swords, fighting and share a burning hate for the vile Lich King.” Long story short: we became mates and now I write about his first full-length release ‘Thurmecia Eternal’.Band names do deceive. I keep saying that and I will say it for a longer time. I got this Ryghär “Thurmecia Eternal” as being a Black Metal effort. Of course, that was my initial thought because of the nordicish name of the band. I didn’t have a look at the cover. For my surprise when I played it in my player I ran into a majestic Epic Heavy Metal band as Manila Road, Desolation Angels or even Cirith Ungol. The album has some kind of charm because the impression it gets is that it sounds as if it were poor producted. “Thurmecia Eternal” has the perfect taste of 1980s albums that were poorly produced or poorly performed, however it is none of them. Above all things this the impression that gives all the charm and attraction to the album.I’ve gotta say that the things that attracted me the most to “Thurmecia Eternal” were the moods Ryghär built. They change a lot through the album. The guitars and occasional keyboardings do help a lot in that. Perhaps the impression of being poorly produced is due to the guitars that sound a bit lower that the rest of the instruments or the vocals. However, the solos are perfectly audible. Also, Ryghär were very happy in including some soundscapes in the middle of the tracks or as intros to them. To my dear fan understand better it’s something like Black Sabbath used to do in some albums as “Born Again” plus the aforementioned keyboards parts. The impression that the album is poorly played maybe comes from some decisions the band made in some tracks as “In a Land Where the Sun Never Sleeps” where the 1960’s The Dooresque keyboards sounds a bit off. Not the tunes, but the tone.I had really a hard time in trying to write this review. Yesterday I stood all afternoon and part of the night wondering what I should write and nothing came to my mind. Perhaps I got too excited about the music here in “Thurmecia Eternal.” Really, I listend to it I guess four or five times to something finally occur and being able to write some words. The music in the album isn’t that common in terms of Metal music. Hardly ever I’ve run into them here in those five years. But I did like what I had. The guitar work is pretty neat with them making interventions all the time which something I really love; the very personal vocals, another that I do respect and the songwriting. This is a debut album that promises a lot, my dear fans.
Line Up:
Ryghar Highwind – Vocals
Thorigrimm – Guitar
Skullsück – Keys
Ryan Keeley/ JD – Drums
Meryl Daggyrd – Guitar
Whiteclaw Nohelm – Bass
Tracklist:
01. A Castle, a Still Lake, a Forest, And a Valley Deep
02. Cair Vasturhaf: A Flaming Sunset on the Parapets of the King of the Western Sea
03. A Desperate Plan on the Field of Battle
04. We Make for the Deeping Pass
05. A Baleful Wind Cries Above the Ziggurat Esoternium
06. Temple of the Crystal Spire
07. Hammers in the Halls of the Deep
08. In a Land Where the Sun Never Sleeps
09. The Witching Blade
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