This can be seen on their especially Jens extremely diverse output. Jens has also played keyboards on many bands and artists albums including Blackmore's Night. The present album is more in the Deep Purple category but with many progressive aspects. I would probably put this album in the Heavy Prog category. The Johansson brothers are obviously very skilled on their respective instruments and not surprisingly the sound is strongly dominated by keyboards and drums but there are also bass and guitars.
There are a couple of instrumentals, but most of the tracks have vocals. The keyboards are mainly organ, synthesisers, some piano and something that sounds like a harpsichord even if I'm pretty sure that it is produced with electronic keyboards. The vocals are very bluesy and almost soulful and would fit in nicely in any classic bluesy Hard Rock band.
Deep Purple might come to mind, but the music here is much more melodic during the vocal parts and much more progressive and jazzy during the instrumental parts. Most of the songs are based on melody and not on instrumental workout.
Most of the many keyboard solos are appropriate within the context of the songs and never too excessive. This is not at all an album concerned just with showing off chops. The song itself is about five and a half minute, but the track runs to over 21 minutes of silence with some noise at the very end.
So don't expect an epic here! Compared to the other two albums they did, Sonic Winter and especially The Last Viking, this debut is slightly immature. This first album has been made available as a two-for-one 2CD release together with the band's second album.
This is probably the best way to get this album and both are good albums. However, their best album is the third, The Last Viking. This album is the second one that the two brothers, keyboardist Jens and drummer Anders Johansson, made together. Malmsteen also plays on this album as a guest, which is very interesting since this is a very different kind of music compared to that of Rising Force.
The Johansson brothers have a much wider set of influences that stretches far beyond the narrow boundaries of metal music. This can be seen on their especially Jens' extremely diverse output.
The influences on this particular album are Jazz and Classical music as well as classic bluesy hard rock. The Johansson brothers are obviously very skilled on their respective instruments and the guitar shredding of Malmsteen is clearly recognizable, but quite sparse?
The overall sound is strongly dominated by keyboards, drums, bass and vocals with some guitar solos not all played by Malmsteen.
The vocals are very bluesy and almost soulful and would fit in any classic bluesy hard rock band. Deep Purple might come to mind, but the music on Sonic Winter is more melodic during the vocal parts and more progressive and jazzy in the instrumental parts. The longer tracks are instrumentals and consist mainly of some very good instrumental workout.
Still, this is not an album concerned just with showing off chops. The shorter songs are based on melody and not on instrumental workout. There is here a nice balance between bluesy hard rock songs with some quirks, and more experimental instrumentals. The various influences are perhaps not as well integrated as they might have been, but this is a worthwhile album.
Good, but non-essential! The two brothers, keyboardist Jens and drummer Anders Johansson, has so far made three albums together plus one together with guitarist Allan Holdsworth. The Last Viking was the last one they did and this one is quite different from the others. The Last Viking is clearly less jazzy and also, at least on the surface, less progressive than the two other Johansson Brothers albums and even more so compared to the straightforward Jazz-Rock of Heavy Machinery the one they did with Holdsworth.
But The Last Viking is also more consistent and, on the whole, much better in my opinion. The former is strongly influenced by Malmsteen's playing and the latter also used to sing for Malmsteen.
Forest Song 6. In the Mirror 7. Samurai Bonus Track 8. Close to You 9. Carry Me Winter Battle Instrumental Soy yo nuevamente acabo de perder mi celular y busque el disco en la web y veo que sigue el link activo que buena onda. Este blog no pretende promover la Pirateria, solo dar a conocer diferentes agrupaciones del rock metal en sus diversas facetas y generos. Los discos que se descarguen de aqui comprarlos originales apoyando y ayudando a sus bandas Dile no a la pirateria.
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