mythsofmetal

This album to me is Einherjer's crowning achievement. I would place this album by the likes of Vredens Tid by Månegarm, and Steadfast by Forefather. It's just a great, very consistent Folk/Black Metal album that to me seems like it's charm will last forever to these ears. This album has a great many guitar leads laden with catchy yet uncheesy folk melody, good, interesting guitar rhythms, excellent varied drum work, good inclusion of synths, and well executed vocals. There's a good amount of variety too, which might normally be unexpected for an album which's quality is so consistently great.

There are nice doomy/groovy songs with interesting synths and drums, with some very catchy guitar riffs and good vocal work like "Dead Knight's Rite." There're faster songs like "Wolf-Age" in particular which has some folksy guitar leads that you may not be able to first discern as cheerful or menacing, Wolf-Age also has a very cool guitar solo, and plenty of fast guitar rhythms guitar rhythms. There's cool doomy, slower Viking Metal sort of songs like "The Eternally Damned," which focuses on creating an interesting, menacing, and brooding atmosphere in a sense that seems to be building up to some sort of epic battle, with great use of synths, drum work, and guitar riffs to accentuate that atmospheric feeling. Soon after "Ware Her Venom" sounds like a continuation of what "The Eternally Damned" alluded to in that it sounds like battle may have begun, or things are getting more heated/action packed, and it's quicker pace helps create that feeling while also still being quite doomy sounding, with more great synths and drums as usual. No Folk/Black Metal album would really be complete without some sort of epic, and "Hammer Haus" provides that in spades.

So, this really is a must listen for anyone who is interested in high quality, and varied (while still staying in the genre,) Folk/Black Metal, especially for people who are interested in hearing a variation of the style that really utilizes synths and drums to keep things interesting instead of just the guitar, (though the guitar does lots of great/interesting stuff throughout as well, plus the vocals are done very well as I said before.)