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  • White Skull - Tales from the North

    White Skull - Tales from the North
    1999 Nuclear Blast Records

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White Skull - Tales from the North

1999 Nuclear Blast Records :: Reviewed by rofreason on 2005-10-25

All you have to do is read the title and you get a pretty good idea of what's going on here, White Skull playing good old fashioned German power metal underneath what I would assume to be Norse myths put to song (I guess titles like Asgard and Viking's Tomb also give me a hint). Whatever the case, I find this type of stuff pretty damn cheesy most of the time, this being one of those moments. Makes me want to raise a tankard and grab a comrade-at-arms for some battle, but that's not really appropriate in my tiny apartment. Blind Guardian does it better, and with all of the stuff I have to hear daily (and that's HAVE to hear, not want to hear, this isn't going to stick around that long. The final nail comes from the vocals, which (especially on the "ballads") sounds like gibberish. Eh, fair, but nothing all that special, sounding more like a band that was signed to cash in on a current fad. Glad to shut this one off.