Winterlong is the brainchild of Thorbjorn Englund who's joined by new vocalist Mikael Holm on Metal / Technology.  The resulting product is one of power and aggression fuelled by the guitar of Englund.

The album opens up with ‘The Hunter’.  The vocals a mix of Accept’s Udo Dirkschneider with a little of AC/DC’s Brian Johnson thrown in.  The result is a voice well suited to this power-metal onslaught.

The gentler swaying start of ‘And So We Remember’ is quickly surpassed by a growling Holm, but it’s the haunting female background singing that really make this track.

The jackhammer drumming and the varied tempo changes and driven riffs of Englund, mixed with minimalist keyboards, make ‘Go To Hell’ a bit of a mixed bag as far as sound goes.

Stand of out tracks on the album have to be ‘My Nevermore’, this is where the techno aspect of the album starts for me, and the next track ‘Like Ships In The Night’, which has the added female touch on the vocals.

The instrumental ‘On A Demons Night’ is classic power metal.  A track that is only an instrumental because the right lyrics haven’t been written that are worthy of its splendor.

‘Cleaning The Machine’ is another track that has that Udo style vocal scream and once again the guitars of Englund are masterful.

The album is another masterstroke by Thorbjorn Englund and will have lovers of power metal rejoicing at the return of Winterlong.