Between work, travel, and some crazy nights out… I just haven’t had chance to sit down and set metaphorical pen to paper. The entire month of October went by without a single edition of The Synn Report to please your eyes and ears with a taste of new and/or under-appreciated music. Recommended for fans of: Agalloch, Moonsorrow, The Gates of Slumberįorgive me oh readers, for I have not Synned… (In this 52nd edition of THE SYNN REPORT, Andy Synn reviews the album-length discography to date of Colorado’s The Flight of Sleipnir, whose forthcoming fifth album will be reviewed in a subsequent post.) Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 7:06 am Tagged with: Centenary, Mesarthim, The Flight of Sleipnir, Venefixion The first advance song from the album was released a couple of days ago, and its name is “Awaken”. It will be released on January 20 by Eisenwald. Skadi is the name of the new sixth album by Colorado’s genre-bending The Flight of Sleipnir. But before getting to those, let’s start with the first of those two individual songs. Sadly, I don’t have time to write decent reviews of those five EPs and will only froth at the mouth about them briefly, hopefully just enough to induce you to listen to them for yourself. On the other hand, there’s so much music in this collection that I decided to divide it into two parts, with Part 2 coming a bit later today. I thought I’d make up for the fact that my meager weekend posts included a grand total of one song. There are two individual songs in here, too. There are more total minutes of new music in this round-up than usual, and that’s because this compilation includes five EPs, one of which is a single 21-minute track. Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 8:59 am Tagged with: The Flight of Sleipnir From that album, we’re proud to premiere its second advance track, “ Servitude“, and to bring you a brief interview with guitarist/bassist Clayton Cushman. And their sixth album, 2017’s sublime Skadi, only enhanced the strength of the band’s reputation for crafting richly textured, dynamically nuanced, and stylistically diverse conglomerations of massive heaviness, acoustic serenity, and much, much more in between.Īnd thus we’ve been eagerly awaiting The Flight of Sleipnir’s seventh album, Eventide, which is now calendared for release by Eisenwald on May 28th. In our review of the fifth album, V, Andy noted ( here) that the songs were, on average, “longer and more intricate than on previous albums, with a greater sense of light and shade than ever before, their hidden depths and subtle secrets concealed beneath waves of gleaming melody and brilliant metallic clarity”. In a feature more than six years ago devoted to their first four albums (created when the band was a duo, bound together by a clear and passionate love of heavy metal, heartfelt melody, and heroic Norse folklore), our Andy Synn characterized the music as a distinctive amalgam “whose earth-shaking, doomy power and sombre, progressive inclinations incorporate binding threads of folk-inflected melody and slithering strands of blackened fury”, while making room for “lengthy acoustic passages and folkish murmurations”. Like a certain other band whose music was the subject of a premiere today, The Flight of Sleipnir is one we’ve been following for a long time as they’ve accumulated a substantial and increasingly impressive discography.
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