Stormlord mare nostrum torrent

Rousing melodies are pitted against blasting passages and evoke a stormy journey of crashing waves and thundercracked skies. Mare Nostrum is off on a triumphant note. Each track whips into a screaming black metal sandstorm set against dancing sitars, majestic female choirs and romantic, sweeping orchestration.

Actually, if I had to make a strong band comparison here, Stormlord has become the black metal Bizzarro World version of Symphony X — specifically their resplendent V: The Grand Design. Mare Nostrum offers a similar blend of gorgeous melodies and urgent momentum, but all done with screaming fury rather than soaring clean vocals or power-metal bravado. You could run with this concept for awhile. Of course, it all depends on your taste for heavily symphonic, melodic black metal, but nothing here set off my cheese-o-meter and I found the entire experience to be well-executed and captivating.

One of my favorite releases of the year so far. Defintely seems these guys are back to the more epic over the top orchestral stuff. Also a hint of Viking in there. Good stuff. Fantastic review. Great stuff here. Easy top ten for the year so far. Excellent job, from both gabaghoul and stormlord. I quite agree on the Symphony X comparison. I would also add some Kamelot reference here. Btw, I like that moment with Swano-like vocals on Neon Karma. Their sound incorporates black, death, gothic and epic power metal, but efficiently enough that you'd never notice.

Terms like 'epic blackened metal' and 'black power metal' are often bandied about to describe this but really, who cares, because this is yet another group of guys who have upped their ante in to produce the greatest work of their career. For some reason I always passed on their previous albums, but I've enjoyed Mare Nostrum so much that I've gone back to their earlier work and found that some of it is pretty good.

Just not at this level. This is a beautiful album, seamlessly integrating elements like symphonic keyboards and folksy guitars with epic, thrashing guitars and blast beats. The title track is a great entrance to the album, but "Neon Karma" is simply stunning, one of my favorite individual tunes this year. Extremely catchy melodies and riffs grace the verse and chorus, and then there is this amazing bridge with gothic vocals which remind me of Dan Swano clean vox, extremely memorable.

I must have pressed repeat a dozen or so times when I first came across this track. So good. I even love some of the lyrics. After this, the rest of the album almost pales, despite the fact it is still high quality. The mix is top notch, you can hear everything quite well. The more I listen, the more I love this, and give it a huge recommendation to fans of epic genre-bending metal, from the folkish side to the symphonic black metal.

Really, you need to hear this, an Italian near-masterpiece. Wow is all I can say regarding this album. I was completely blown away on first listen. This is an incredibly amazing album, with very few flaws at all First off, I must say that I first heard of Stormlord many years ago, when I downloaded their songs "Curse of Medusa" and "Dance of Hecate".

I really liked both, but I was lacking the resources at the time to further investigate the band. Just recently, I had the opportunity to obtain Stormlord's newest, Mare Nostrum, and I immediately remembered those other 2 songs that I heard many years ago, and subsequently decided to get the album.

After only two listens, I concluded that this was one of the best albums I have heard all year. The main thing that makes this album so amazing, is the unique sound Stormlord achieve. Overall, this album sounds like epic power metal with black metal vocals.

Imagine a less technical Symphony X not technically power metal, but whatever.. The epic powerful black metal style Stormlord has on this album stands out more than any of their other releases. Symphonic elements abound throughout the album, with an amazing use of choirs and orchestra. Aside from the notable power metal influence, many others are quite detectable. One of my most favorite moments on this album is in the song 'Neon Karma".

Half-way through the song, Type O Negative is invoked, and the result is absolutely amazing. In terms of influences, this album is incredibly diverse at times, but overall, the album is incredibly consistent.

Mare Nostrum's production is also worth mentioning. The mix is absolutely perfect, and each instrument's sound quality is amazing. Mare Nostrum is an incredible album. From the more traditional black metal track "Dimensional Hate" to the acoustic "The Castaway", the album with captivate from beginning to end. There is nothing really negative about this album, aside from 2 or 3 tracks not being as amazing as the rest.