Heralds of Fight

The recipe is relatively simple: drums, choirs, synth/strings, and a good production (unlike the poor previous album 'Forgotten Songs') combined to create a 1 hour long martial/medieval ambient album. Strength, Valor and War are the themes here and the music incarnates them in a very convincing manner. All the nine tracks have a similar tone and they sound like the instrumental introductions of some Graveland songs except that they're 5 to 9 minutes long with lots of primal "war drums". If you have heard the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack, imagine the first track, "the Anvil of Crom" being colder and more 'bombastic' and 'epic' and it will give you an idea of what this album sounds like. It lacks variety and is repetitive - somewhat like a fantasy videogame soundtrack - but it didn't bother me: it's the kind of music that puts me in the mood for a battle.

This is the second Lord Wind CD but the first that can be considered a real album. If you like it then please ignore the first one, the very boring and amateurish 'Forgotten Songs', which should have stayed forgotten like a bad first demo