Wind Rose
Stonehymn

Chapter three for Wind Rose, this time they are doing stuff for the Swedish Inner Wound label. I have followed this Italian band since their debut album that was released in 2012. Their new stonehymn offer up more of the same stuff as they have done before, there are no new ideas and I don’t really think that they offer either revolution or evolution. The Italians aim their new album at the same people who bought their earlier album and those who doesn’t want to hear any kind of change or evolution from the bands they are listening to.

Stonehymn is the same kind of epic style power/melodic metal as we have heard from them before. Strong production with songs that have this feel of epicness, mostly the same tempo songs that are not very varied and with a playing time of near fifty minutes you get the feel that the album is very much on the long side. I also think that the vocals are rather dull, and lack a sense of expression. But overall I think that they, just like their earlier albums, have put together a rather strong production.

Overall I think that this is a good album, it has good songs, strong melodies and a nice epic feel. It is an album for the fans of this genre, and for the ones who have already fallen for the music of these guys. It is an album that doesn’t offer much when it comes to fresh thinking and new ideas, they thread well travelled paths towards more toney hymns. My feeling towards it as it has been for their previous albums, they do what they do well, they offer some good epic melodic metal music that is easy to like but not as easy to remember.

It is a good but not very memorable album. I would state that Wind Rose keeps travelling the same paths and repeating themselves, over and over. This is really the third time that they offer something that sounds very similar to the first album – to remain interesting as a band you have to evolve and while they promised much in 2012 I would say that they have made themselves a lot less exciting five years later. Wind Rose really have to evolve in order to make themselves more relevant and more interesting, this is their third well made but also quite generic album.

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