Style: Extreme heavy metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A curious mix of female lead clean vocals with black metal influences in a semi progressive shell
Thoughts: What a roller coaster this album is. The band sounds like they are trying to find their sound and in doing so have created a rather unique entry into the metal field.
The basis of the album is progressive metal/rock lead by Cammie's emotional vocals. This varies from acoustic ballad-esque introductions with her voice sounding venerable to heavy as hell sections with her belting out at the top of her lungs. That's not the entirety of the vocals though. There are two male singers that use extreme vocals as a counterpoint to the female leads.
The music takes similar twists and turns. In the same song we'll have nice shifting progressive tunes that will slowly (or sometimes quickly) shift over to extreme metal. The thing is that while it's odd, it doesn't sound out of place. It actually works quite well. Especially when Cammie's and the extreme vocals are layered or duetting. That's where the album has it's true strength.
I haven't heard much from the band after this album. I'm somewhat curious where the band went from here, but at the same time I don't want to taint the legacy that Winter has. We'll see what the future holds.
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