Winter's Dawn - Wandering Through The Realm... [Digipak]

Item Location: Wisconsin (USA)

2008 Nokternal Hemizphear

01. The Dawn Of Winter (Instrumental)
02. Frost Fall
03. Embraced By Ice
04. Glimpse Of The Realm (Instrumental)
05. Landscape Of Winter
06. The Realm Of Frosted Beauty

A Journey Through The Darkness Towards The Light:

07. The Fall: Serenity Lost (Instrumental)
08. The Battle: Black Illusions
09. The Victory: Rapturous Surrender

Time: 28:00
Media: Digipak (8 panel insert and lyrics)
Origin: UK

"Anyone who does not like this does not understand the primitive beginnings of true black metal. To a degree, the more primitive the recording, the more black metal it is. Bizarre for sure, but that is the way the early black metal bands did things and so it's part of the tradition. That being said, the music itself stands out as an exceptionally talented band that puts their own take on a style of music that has been around for a while."

- Matt Hunt (Retroactive Records/Brutal Planet Distribution) 12/11/08

"Memories of winter's past fill my mind again. Winter's gentle embrace, Life's temporary refrain."

Brrrrrrrrr... Man this metal is freezing to the touch! So cold you better get something warm on your brain before the frostbitten northern winds of these metalers consumes your every thought! Straight from the old world of England, comes the furious blast of Winter's Dawn!

Released in a limited edition digipak of only 500 copies by Nokternal Hemizphear in 2008, Winter's Dawn heralds the rising of the cold season with their aptly entitled debut "Wandering Through the Realm of Frosted Beauty". With hellacious frigid screams hailing from Raptor at the helm, his rhythmic melodies tightly strung from an ancient ice-stake, coupled with Amnon's atmospheric keys and blanketed by a numbing saturation of blast beats and chilling percussions.

Winter's Dawn unveils a memorable journey through winterdom that speaks of a grand awakening and new comprehension of the Creator through the purity of the season of ice and snow. Aside from having several songs from this debut album appear on multiple metal samplers spanning the frozen hemizphear, the bitter cold songs will please all who long for more frostbitten atmospheres to sooth the soul. In essence the album is comprised of two parts wrapped tightly within the blackest ice saturated with heart-bursting feeling and intensity.

The first six songs delve into this "Wandering Through the Realm of Frosted Beauty" while the final three songs reach a more epic storyline entitled "A Journey Through the Darkness Towards the Ligh". Intermittently, throughout the entire journey, majestic and awe-inspiring key - driven instrumentals serve as breath-taking interludes that not only calm your senses from the before but set your anticipation for what is to come... This is an enthralling journey of atmospheric black metal that is a chilling meld of Antestor and old age Emperor to the likings of "In the Nightside Eclipse". Fans of Antestor, Emperor, Vaakevandring, Vardoger, old Immortal, and even to the cold taste of bands like Wintersun, Dissection, Dimmu Borgir, Immortal Souls, and Frosthardr will crave this production! Aesthetically pleasing to the eyes with jaw-dropping artwork capturing divine winter beauty, producing an audio/visual tour-de-force like never before assembled in one package. Weaved throughout this journey deep lyrical inspirations will leave a frostbitten scar for years to come on all experience this album, the Winter's Dawn has arrived...

"Standing amidst the desolate lands, where no one has been since long past, a sign left by those dead, yet alive. I find a cross of hope left for those seeking to find their way home through the cold."

Lyrics from "Landscape of Winter" and "Embraced by Ice"

- Nokternal Hemizphear

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