Ensiferum - From Afar

Some Guy is back with another review. "The Man" didn't like our last one and made Blogger take it down. Damn "The Man" always keeping us down. I am but a humble blogger trying to make myself less bored by writing mediocre reviews of things and posting them on the internet. Anyways today we've got the new Ensiferum album "From Afar". Kind of a lame title, but metal is all about being so lame it's not a big deal.

This album is the Ensiferum you know and love, or you hate, but probably love. The first thing you'll notice about this album is all the symphonic stuff going on. I think it fits in pretty nicely, although it does seem like a strange idea. This is folk metal here people, folk metal shouldn't be layered with keyboards and other silly things. It's about using weird folk instruments and being awesome. Lyrics continue to be about generic folk metal topics, but if you listen to metal for the lyrics you might have a serious problem (Not that some metal bands don't have brilliant lyrics, I mean.) .

A few tracks really stand out as being pretty sweet. Stone Cold Metal is probably my favorite with its badass banjo solo. Yes, a mothafucking banjo solo. Now that's something I'd like to hear more often. Numerous songs are as usual ridiculously catchy and make me want to sing along. The metal nerd within me can't help but enjoy this. I don't see it winning any awards any time soon but the fan will enjoy it. I wonder if they will keep the heavy symphonic elements on the future releases? We'll see, we'll see!


Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/274090385/Ensiferum-From_Afar-_Advance_-2009-FNT.rar

No password, I'd upload this to Mediafire but well I'm lazy.

Some Guy OUT