Winter Storm
Within the frozen design
Release date – 16th November 2013
Track listing:
Cold creation
Wasted feelings
Symmetric flow
Afraid to speak
Beneath the mystery
Broken world
Universal design
Gatekeeper
Dark awakening
Waves of misery
The frozen siren
Members:
Hannah Fieldhouse –Vocals/Guitar
Wayne Taylor – 7 String Guitar
‘Doomsday’ – Keyboard
Jamie Downes – Bass Guitar
William Stokes – Drums
Currently searching for a new bassist and drummer
Winter storm are a five-piece dark melodic female fronted band from the West Midlands, United Kingdom. For anyone who likes Nightwish, Opeth, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation or Paradise lost, this band will be perfect for you. The album spans 55 minutes, which is a solid running time and features 12 tracks on the album.
Keeping the album a local affair, the album was recorded by Alex Cooper at Arkham Recording Studios, which is located at Madhouse in Birmingham.
From the opening track ‘Cold Creation’, It is apparent that the album will feature massive orchestral backing similar to Nightwish with the dramatic twists and turns expected by Within Temptation. The metal side of things is introduced in the single taken from the album ‘Wasted feelings’ (Video available on youtube). The vocals add that contradicting texture of smooth, clear, choir style singing over syncopated Drums, Bass and Guitar.
Each track has its own uplifting sections within the rhythmic and heavy parts to create a constant change in texture, which keeps the listener engaged throughout the entire album, but especially through ‘Wasted feelings’ and into ‘Shadow Weaver’ as the last 1:44 of ‘Wasted feelings’ is completely instrumental (which is a hard task to pull off for any band).
The album is based around a specific theme, which I won’t give away’ (I guess you’ll have to purchase the album to find out). All I will say is, once the story starts to unfold in ‘Shadow Weaver’, the album starts to pick up featuring more vocal melodies, guitar solos and harder hitting rhythms. The album doesn’t stop with the energetic surge and continues this build-up all the way to the conclusion of ‘The frozen siren’, which ends with the most dramatic syncopated guitar rhythm of the entire album.