{"id":1056,"date":"2012-11-30T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2012-11-30T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:16:34","slug":"mini-reviews-vintersorg-jordpulsorkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1056","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Reviews: Vintersorg – Jordpuls\/Orkan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last time this happened to me was way back with Blind Guardian’s<\/b> Imaginations From The Other Side<\/i>. I’d put the record on and consider it a good album, nothing more. Then, a subsequent spin would leave me much more impressed. This would continue until I absolutely loved the record. The sad thing is; it would reset every time I stopped.<\/p>\n

So, while I was a huge fan of Vintersorg’s<\/b> first three releases, I lost interest when Cosmic Genesis<\/i> came out. Now, I quite like it, but then I was disappointed. The next two albums were not really my thing and the following one was a step in the right direction. Next would be Jordpuls<\/i> (Pulse of the Earth) and again, I liked the 2011 version of Vintersorg<\/b> but I never found myself putting it on. Until now, that is.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Several months after Jordpuls’<\/i> successor came out, I went back to this album and have been loving it ever since. I can’t say it hearkens back to the excellence of \u00d6demarkens Son<\/i> but it’s new, fresh and phenomenal. Bouncing between the folk influence to the wonderful raspy vocals, I loved hearing his trademark vocal style, catchy riffs and having that familiar Vintersorg<\/b> sound. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A year after Jordpuls<\/i> we were treated to Orkan<\/i> (Hurricane). Again, this took a few months to warm up to, but now, almost half a year later, I cannot stop listening to it!!! It’s got everything Jordpuls<\/i> did but with catchier riffs, more memorable melodies and choruses. The vocals are powerful, the mix is spectacular and it’s one of those records where when it ends, I want to put it back on again. I cannot find a single weak point on the record. It’s excellent through-and-through.<\/p>\n

Now, I’d already talked about Borknagar’s Urd<\/a> and with it being a bit of a weak year, that may have been my Album Of The Year<\/i> until I started up with Orkan<\/i>. If not, Vintersorg himself may be on two of my top albums of the year, something that has never happened before. Ultimately, I’m loving these two Vintersorg<\/b> records, something my Last.fm profile can verify<\/a>! I haven’t listened to this much of the band since 2001. And to think…there are two more records of this planned four-album concept to come! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last time this happened to me was way back with Blind Guardian’s Imaginations From The Other Side. I’d put the record on and consider it a good album, nothing more. Then, a subsequent spin would leave me much more impressed. This would continue until I absolutely loved the record. The sad thing is; it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,28],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-music","category-reviews","tag-vintersorg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}