Monday, April 1, 2024

Winter's Breath (Austria)





Winter's Breath (Austria) 
CD."Rising Storm"

From Vienna Austria up to our 'Zine  Winter's Breath a totally symphonic sound from start to finish where the most powerful black metal stands out but without losing the most melodic essence of the proposal. At times we walk through death sounds but with the melody in between, CD."Rising Storm" the ep that we are breaking down today is a material that is quite in line with the band, it never leaves its parameters and throughout its ten songs we It captures with this sound so deep more than music feelings of very dark nostalgia with a lot of atmosphere and projection of a very cold feeling. Within the genre for the year 2020 of the best that was released, let's remember that in 2021 the remastered version was released so that I wanted to get more juice out of this outrageous EP. In the strings section I highlight the riffs so violent and dark that they are usually hymns to darkness, in the same way an exact battery and of course a very correct and special voice for the keyboard setting that gives a brutal nuance to the project , highly recommended. 




CD. "Graveyard Symphonies" 

The brutality of this project continues to surprise me every time I delve deeper into Winter's Breath very melodic black death with a very elaborate and concrete execution and proposal that manages to have a very high final sound quality and that never leaves you indifferent. CD."Graveyard Symphonies" this CD made in June 2021 that has nine songs, each one of them quite deep and brutal, something more visceral and rough than those that I was able to appreciate before, but that does not take away from the interesting sound of this band that is so intelligent to add the best of each extreme style together with the melody and at the same time the darkness and that gloomy and sad feeling that they transmit is never affected. We could say that this is a very deep material, something more than the previous ones and experiments more with slower and denser rhythms, making the atmosphere of it much darker than it normally is, sometimes supplanting the melody with the darkness of the sound. and those death marches as well as the suspense generated in several of the song structures. Point that I always highlight with this band the rises of power if that's what I call them, when you least expect it and the sound is calm and very sad, suddenly without expecting it comes a barrage of energy that doesn't feel forced but fits right into the moment as if it were something that comes to save you from that certain death that you would have or perhaps bring you to the same but in a more accelerated and less painful way. One of my most favorite CD. of this band. 



CD. Split “Two Worlds”

We continue with Winter’s Breath the brutal project from the capital of Austria, which blends between black and death with its great dose of melody. Today we review the split “Two Worlds” that they recorded with the band BAL in October 2021. On this occasion, the band participates with only two songs, which are still so brutal for only being two. The "Cursed" and "Hunter" quite elaborate and complete songs that when you listen to this split you realize that the band is evolving every time and makes this material super solid in terms of sound and musical proposal, they know very well what they want to play and what they want to transmit with their music and that is quite important within these styles that are linked to melody, a band that does not lose sight of the rage with which they play and does not allow itself to be soaked only by meaningless melody, guitars and always crushing bass, solid drums from beginning to end and a voice from the very grave to leave everything served to the dark atmosphere of the synthesizers as if it were an eternal funeral march, an excellent proposal.



CD. Split "Zwei Stimmen"

Winter's Breath present us this 2022 Split from the city of Vienna, a material that was released together with the band Withdraw. A song of more than 14 minutes "Zwei Stimmen" we could say an Ep. by itself because of the length of the song, which walks us through the entire musicl proposal of this great project, we enjoy black metal but in such a sublime way always with the present melody and at times we also have the aggressive death melody, but never tiring thanks to the enormous creativity of the mastermind behind all this. They also experimented with clean voices in the form of choirs that give it a rather dark nuance of black mass, and songs that gradually rise in tone, never leaving you indifferent, much less feeling monotonous because it really is a very intelligent way of presenting this proposal. If you like to experiment beyond the conventional within the darkest genre, this band is for you, dare to get to know them more.