This isn't the first time I've professed my love for Scandinavian metal, mostly due to that area's predominance of huge, cinematic production styles and lyrical themes drawing from ancient folklore and dark fantasy. It probably won't be the last time I mention that either. One of my more enjoyable finds from the mighty Norse lands is Norwegian five-man power metal outfit Tellus Requiem, whose style ventures beyond solid melodies and anthemic refrains (although they do handle those very well) and into the neoclassical arrangements, long-form songwriting and grand-scale storytelling that are progressive metal's stock in trade. Like many prog-metal bands on both sides of the Atlantic, Tellus Requiem draws strength from key members' backgrounds in classical music, often composing on an operatic scale in the mode of Dream Theater or Symphony X, but never resorting to orchestral passages as a mere backdrop for the metal elements, a habit pretty common in European symphonic metal.
- 1/29/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
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