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MWP 2023 Reviews Part II: Seven Kingdoms - Self-Titled

Seven Kingdoms is a band that I could never really get into. I absolutely love the riffs, and their live sound is great, but I've never been a fan of the clean, soaring, reverb-soaked Power Metal vocals that many bands in the genre use. Tracks like "The Ones Who Breath The Flame" do a good job at balancing the clean and heavy styles, but I feel like their songs that use exclusively clean vocals tend to sound way too cheesy to ... read more

I have returned! For this mini series of reviews, I'll be reviewing one album from each band that played at the Mad With Power festival in Madison Wi. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of power metal but this years line up had some of my all time favorites, such as Wilderun, the band in question. Now for the review:

Olden Tales and Deathly Trails is the debut album by the Folk/Prog/Power Metal band Wilderun released in 2012. This album centers around themes of the sea and pirates, making this album ... read more

The outer ones was already heavy as fuck, but this album turns it up to 11 despite having more melodic & less dissonant riffs than their 2018 project. Also Corpsegrinder is on here which is always a treat.

Beherit has released some good material in the past, but the fact that their fans chose this album in particular to put on a pedestal never ceases to confuse me. Every aspect of this album feels unfinished. Near-inaudible guitars and bass, cheesy "Satan" vocals that sound like they came from an 80s arcade cabinet, and all around awful production even by black metal standards. It's a shame, because the instrumentals show that this album could have been great, but the empty production ... read more