![]() ![]() These songs don't exactly have a lot of variation within them (as does most of the album) but they are extremely good at establishing precisely the right atmosphere that I think Quorthon was going for, and all work together for the same goal. ![]() The next track continues in the same midpaced fashion, but with a less grandiose feel. It feels like a grandiose announcement or opening, and flows into the next song with some ambiance and sea-sounds. ![]() The song remains on a constant upwards flowing melody, and could act as an post-intro intro to the rest. Like the previous Nordland, it begins with a very competently made intro that sets the mood, immediately transitioning to the grand intro of Blooded Shore, which goes from a simple power chord progression with a choir into an epic midpaced folky melody, before the signature Quorthon singing/shouting begins. There are touches of doom, thrash, and Bathory's style of proto black metal. The music itself is mostly midpaced heavy metal with a large tendency to repeat 'massive' feeling riffs and establish and epic atmosphere. It is easily labeled as Viking metal (if you use that label) together with his previous works that pioneered Viking themed metal. Quorthon's last opus contains elements accumulated from all those years of experience and all those masterful works, although evidently less from the first 3 and more from the latter works (besides Octagon/Requiem). ![]()
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