VINTERLAND - Welcome My Last Chapter CD

If ever there was a perfect album, this one would have to be considered. I challenge anybody who doesn't like black metal to listen to this and not find something to enjoy. In fact, this album is alone responsible for finally opening my ears to black metal after over 10 years of derision. From the beautiful piano ballads like So Far Beyond to some of the most inspired mixtures of black/death/folk, this album blends together into a work of art from beginning to end. Even the production maintains that cold feeling of black metal without sounding like it was recorded in a metal shipping container. On top of the amazing songwriting, really the best that black metal (or blackened death metal) has to offer, there are these tortured and depressed vocals that fit the cold and desolate feel of the album perfectly. There are just layers upon layers of sound in the mix and nothing sounds out of place or over the top.