Epic, orchestral, but still restless an wild – FROSTTIDE provide everything that fans love about Finnish Metal. Between influences such as Insomnium, Moonsorrow, Wintersun and Amorphis, the band presents a characteristic way of sound, that combines directness with sweeping structures.
The new video “Revenant” is an epos between stormy guitars and large arrangements and represents the newest release “Decedents – Enshrined” perfectly.
Check out the video here:
Epic folk metallers FROSTTIDE have announced via their official Facebook page that they will be supporting ENISFERUM on a tour of Finland, starting in February:
“We are really happy to announce that Frosttide is supporting Ensiferum in their “One Man Army” Finnish shows at Tampere, Seinäjoki, Jyväskylä and Helsinki! What a great way to celebrate the release of our second album Blood Oath! Who’s coming!?”
Upcoming shows:
20.03.2015 DE – Leipzig, Hellraiser
21.03.2015 DE – Oberhausen, Turbinenhalle
22.03.2015 NL – Tilburg, 013
23.03.2015 DE – Hamburg, Markthalle
24.03.2015 CH – Pratteln, Z7
25.03.2015 DE – Saarbrücken, Garage
26.03.2015 DE – Frankfurt, Batschkapp
27.03.2015 DE – München, Backstage
28.03.2015 AT – Wien, Arena
29.03.2015 DE – Berlin, Postbahnhof
04.04.2015 FI – Helsinki, Bar Bäkkäri
24.04.2015 FI – Lahti, Torvi
02.05.2015 FI – Helsinki, On the Rocks
As previously announced, FROSTTIDE are set to release their new album “Blood Oath” on 27th February via Noiseart Records.
Tracklisting for “Blood Oath”:
1. Prologue
2. Blood Oath
3. Gates Of The Asylum
4. Fate Redefined
5. Traitor Within
6. Foreshadow
7. New Reign
8. Winds of Winter ́s Call
9. One Night In Bangkok (Murray Head-Cover)
10. Apache (The Shadows-Cover)
From left to right:
Felipe Munoz, Juho Patinen, Joni Snoro, Joonas Nislin, Lauri Myllylä
Photographer Mikko Henrik Huotari
Finland ´s Folk Death Metaller FROSTTIDE have introduced a first new press picture (see above) next to the cover artwork for their new record „Blood Oath“ coming out on Feb 27th via Noiseart Records. Also the tracklist has been released now. It will contain two cover versions of well known Rock classics and reads like that:
1. Prologue
2. Blood Oath
3. Gates Of The Asylum
4. Fate Redefined
5. Traitor Within
6. Foreshadow
7. New Reign
8. Winds of Winter ́s Call
9. One Night In Bangkok (Murray Head-Cover)
10. Apache (The Shadows-Cover)
„Blood Oath“ is a direct follow up to the last album and fits into the concept of it: “When recording “Awakening” we decided to make a set of brother albums. We saved one song from “Awakening” to be on the second record. So, even though this is our second record, we decided to base the lyrics on the story that occurred before “Awakening”. Making this a prequel. The story allows the listener to know where everything originated and what led to the arrogant and greedy attitude that can be seen in the protagonist of “Awakening”.””
More information at: http://www.facebook.com/frosttide
Finnish Dark Folk Metallers FROSTTIDE will release a new album on February 27th via Noiseart Records, entitled „Blood Oath“ and will be the next step to their 2013 debut. This has led to better compositions and arranging. The album follows the same air as “Awakening” as these are both connected. But this is all taken to the next level!
Comments the band:
„Blood Oath“ is going to be aggressive, heavy, melodic, bombastic and with very deep and beautiful atmospheres.”
Also, the band kept their trademark and returned with another concept album: “When recording “Awakening” we decided to make a set of brother albums. We saved one song from “Awakening” to be on the second record. So, even though this is our second record, we decided to base the lyrics on the story that occurred before “Awakening”.
Making this a prequel. The story allows the listener to know where everything originated and what led to the arrogant and greedy attitude that can be seen in the protagonist of “Awakening”.
Also the cover artwork is unveiled, see above. The band will be on Paganfest tour in March, check out the shows below:
19.03. Ludwigsburg, Rockfabrik
20.03. Leipzig, Hellraiser
21.03. Oberhausen, Turbinenhalle
22.03. NL-Tilburg, O13
23.03. Hamburg, Markthalle
24.03. CH-Pratteln, Z7
25.03.Saabrücken, Garage
26.03. Frankfurt, Batschkapp
27.03. München, Backstage
28.03. A-Wien, Arena
29.03. Berlin, Postbahnhof”
More information at: http://www.facebook.com/frosttide
Finnish Epic/ Dark/ Folk metallers FROSTTIDE have released tour music video for the song “Ruins of Defeat”, taken from their debut full length album “Awakening”, released in August 2013, via NoiseArt Records. Check it out below.
Comments the band:
“On august 30th 2013, our debut album Awakening was released via NoiseArt Records. Right after its release we took part of Heidenfest together with Ensiferum, Turisas, Equilibrium and SuidAkrA. Then on the early 2014, we supported Ensiferum on their Unsung Heroes Tour in France. During this time a year ago we started the recordings for Awakening. It has been a great Journey! We have got great memories from this gigs and we want to share them with you in this video! Thanks for your support! Cheers!”
To read our review for the FROSTTIDE’s album “Awakening”, go HERE.
Band Members:
Joni Snoro (Vocals, Guitar)
Juho Patinen (Guitar, Backing vocals)
Joonas Nislin (Drums)
Felipe Munoz (Keyboards)
Lauri Myllylä (Bass player in Heidenfest 2013)
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Review by Larry Paterson
Artist: FROSTTIDE
Album: Awakening
Label: NoiseArt Records
Release Date: 30 August 2013
Tracklist:
1. Winter’s Call
2. Awakening
3. Quest For Glory
4. No Turning Back
5. Dawn Of Despair
6. Siege
7. Ruins Of Defeat
8. Unwritten (Engraved In The Stars)
A four piece (they don’t appear to have a permanent bassist), FROSTTIDE hail from Jyväskylä, Finland and describe themselves as a Melodic/Folk Metal band. So, before I begin the review (my first for MSF as I am a new boy), I’d like to point out that I have no particular love for squeezing bands into tiny sub genres and generally I actually have no idea what the sub genre actually means. For me, I like metal….and as sacrilegious as that may seem to people that basically goes from AC/DC to Sepultura, stopping at all good points in between.
So what do we have here……
‘Winter’s Call’ opens the album; a truly beautiful piece of music that would not out of place on the big screen providing a soundtrack to imagery from Lord Of The Rings, or perhaps more appropriately, the viking film Pathfinder. Which makes the arrival of ‘Awakening’ all the more spectacular. Huge riffing from both guitars and bass, coupled with tight drumming to punctuate and accentuate every beat, kicks proceedings off. The keyboards sit in the background providing an orchestral vibe throughout the album, occasionally coming to the fore for some of the instrumental passages, but never overpowering the sound. Vocally, Joni Snoro has the kind of snarl that may not appeal to everybody, but fits the feel of this band perfectly and helps to keep the feel dark and intense. There is not huge variety in the vocal delivery, but with so much going on around them they never outstay their welcome and as they fit so well, they become a strong point of the band. Guitarist Juho Patinen provides backing vocals that match Joni’s and beef up proceedings here and there.
‘Awakening’ is well constructed and atmospheric and leads perfectly to ‘Quest For Glory’ which has a main riff that perhaps showcases the folk element of FROSTTIDE’s style. ‘No Turning Back’ follows with a small drum intro and at 2:44 has my favourite tempo break on the whole album. Yet again the riffing has perfect precision, the slower orchestral passages never outweighing the weight of the faster parts.
‘Dawn Of Despair’ provides an interlude of more atmospheric soundtrack style music, before ‘Siege’ kicks in with swelling riffs and solid double bass drums. Probably my favourite track on the album; tons of atmosphere and perfectly played. I also can’t claim to be able to follow the lyrics on all the tracks, but can hear them best here on ‘Siege’, bringing the album’s theme story to life more for me. The entire album is a concept piece, according to vocalist Joni, telling the story of a group of warriors who go to the aid of a village facing an enemy invasion (this is taken from the NoiseArt Records website). ‘Ruins Of Defeat’ comes next, with its stronger hints of folk in the main riff again. Love the riff/drum interplay that sit either side of the vocal passages. I’m guessing with a title like that, that things may not have gone so well for the group of warriors.
They save their longest track until the end, ‘Unwritten (Engraved In The Stars)’ clocking in at over 14 minutes (although the last minute appears to be silence…unless my battered hearing is missing something). Personally I am not always a fan of extremely long tracks unless they have something special to say. It seems that since the days of Metallica’s ‘Justice’ album many bands have felt the need to pad tracks out and make them longer when a more direct ‘trimmed’ version could work better. However….this one does indeed work. A song of many parts; blast beat drums alternate with tasty progressive bits of unusual time signatures, but all moving the song forward rather than feeling like an exercise in cleverness. Mass melodic vocals, tight and interesting riffs, time changes, orchestral keyboards, acoustic guitar, an achingly emotive piano piece….all combine to give a brilliant end to a great album.
FROSTTIDE formed in 2009 and released their first EP, ‘Dawn Of Frost’, the following year. ‘Awakening’ is their debut full length album and it bodes incredibly well for their future.
Rating 8/10
Band Members:
Joni Snoro (Vocals, Guitar)
Juho Patinen (Guitar, Backing vocals)
Joonas Nislin (Drums)
Felipe Munoz (Keyboards)
Lauri Myllylä (Bass player in Heidenfest 2013)
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