Thyrfing
Hels Vite
Rating
Style: Pagan/Viking metal
Release date: October 22nd 2008
 

At home I have the CD 'Valdr Galga' from 1999. The band played metal with extreme vocals and a lot of folky influences.  They were a kind of pioneers for bands like Korpiklaani and Finntrol. After the short split in 2004 they joined hands again and signed with Regain Records. The path they took with their last album 'Farsotstider' is again followed and takes the band more and more away from their early more folky style. 

The opening track reminds me of Bathory back in the 'Hammerheart' times. In the songs there are a lot of early black and death influences. Especially the guitar sound has that kind of dry crunchy sound. Most of the songs are rather slow and midtempo, in "Isolation" they introduce nice orchestral parts in their music, and this gives the song a nice bombastic vibe. These orchestral parts are withheld in other songs. 

On this album the band combines influences of Bathory, My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Darkthrone with orchestral parts and melts it together in rather long tracks. The keen thing of it is; they still sound like Thyrfing.


Tracklist
01. En Sista Litania
02. Fran Stormens Öga
03. Isolation
04. Hels Vite
05. Griftefrid
06. Becoming The Eye
07. Tre Vintrar - Tva Solar
Label: Regain Records
Provided by: Regain Records
Distribution: Target (Denmark)
Reviewed by: Reinier de Vries
Date: October 5th 2008
Website: www.thyrfing.com