2/13/2023 0 Comments The flight of sleipnir v![]() ![]() With this fifth full-length, The Flight Of Sleipnir have reached their peak of splendor and let’s hope they’re able to keep the stakes high. “V.” is a very complete and catchy album full of mysticism and originality. ![]() It’s also in this song that their folk side emerges due to the presence of flutes. Female vocals are also present in “Archaic Rites” almost replacing the male ones. In one moment we can have clean and lingering voices just to let us be overwhelmed by staggering growls that can be heard when their darkest stoner metal approach comes to surface – although, the band’s stoner approach is not so conventional at all. There’s also a progressive rock taste regarding that matter in the track “Nothing Stands Obscured”.Ībout the vocals department, the band also jumps off their comfortable corner. Still concerning innovation, the band also delivers melodic guitar solos that sometimes touch melancholy through the well-worked sound in order to breathe notes full of devotion. On the other hand, the echo effects are also applied in other instruments, especially in the beginning of some songs. In this record, the post-rock approach is clear due to some instances delivered by magnificent echoed lead guitars. The Flight Of Sleipnir have never been a band that gets stuck in only one genre or path, so it’s normal that in each album new elements are applied making them better than previously. There’s no shadow of doubt about that description and everything gets already clarified with the first track, “Headwinds”. In this new record, the calm passages that include acoustic or without distortion guitars are alternated with compositions linked to the more traditional doom metal with the addition of a strong distortion that puts us in the stoner field that has been developed by the band over the years. It is an entirely original variation on that classic tone and Listen to and purchase the new album here.Odin’s eight-legged steed personified in the North-American band The Flight Of Sleipnir is back with the fifth full-length “V.” that was released by the well-known Napalm Records. There is not a moment on the album that the guitars could ever be deemed weak.įans of traditional doom albums should check this out. ![]() The guitarwork on this album is simply incredible, from riffs that grip you to absolutely transcendent solos. A catchy riff and drums build up pace till they cut out into an odd audio sample that drops into an acoustic riff and melodious chanting. The album has great riffs that simply hook you from the first listen and moments like on Demise Carries With It A Song, perfectly blend the simplicity of an acoustic riff with the epic nature of the sound these guys work to create here. More serene moments are reflected in the clean vocals, the acoustic strumming and the melodic guitar leads juxtaposed against bellowing deep growls and raspy black metal vocals. The album contains so much contrast that each listen really exhibits anew characteristic. This particular development in their sound I would describe as reminiscent of the pace of a simple acoustic album albeit of the style of a modern Viking doom metal album. Saga loses some of that stoner progginess that Essence simply oozed, instead opting for more of an emphasis on the folk elements in their sound. Take elements from the aforementioned Cascadians, raspy vocals contrasted with clean singing over top folk melodies, and mold them into the shape of mid-era Baroness’ characteristically Southern prog folk sound and you might be close to what Flight of Sleipnir sounds like. The Flight of Sleipnir popped up on my radar after 2011’s Essence of Nine, a melodic and rather uplifting spin on the traditional doom sound that embraces folk elements that one might expect to hear in Agalloch’s brand of blackened folk.
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