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TRACKNAME TIME ▒▓ ██ ▓█ ██ 01 | Dreams Of Winterland [03:30] ██ ██ 02 | Into Infernal [03:38] ██ ██ 03 | Freezing Winds Of North [03:36] ██ ██ 04 | Enchanting Woods [03:38] ██ ██ 05 | Halls Of Frozen North [03:06] ██ ██ 06 | Forest Enthroned [03:50] ██ ██ 07 | Awake In Dark [02:51] ██ ██ 08 | Song Of The Nightbird [03:39] ██ ██ 09 | Icy Tears Of Eternity [03:04] ██ ██ 10 | Burning Aura [03:36] ██ ██ 11 | Child Of Sunset [02:36] ██ ██ 12 | Land Of The Autumn Winds [03:51] ██ ██ 13 | Pimea Yo [04:19] ██ ██ 14 | Outro [01:21] ██ ██ ██ ██ ------- ██ ██ 46:35 min ██ ██ ██ ██ ┌─┬─┬┐┌─┬─┬─┬─┐ ┌─┬─┬┐┌─┬─┐ ██ ██ │││││├┤││││└┤││ │││││└┤││└┤ ▄█ ▄██ ██ │ ┤┌┤││┌┤ ├┐│┌┤ │││││┌┤┌┤┐│ ■█████████████████████████████████████████ ██ └┴┴─┴─┴─┴┴┴─┴─┘ └┴┴─┴─┴─┴─┘ ▀█ ▀██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ This album introduced to Catamenia. It's a very pleasant ██ ██ album to listen to. It is a different style from today's ██ ██ Catamenia, it is much more raw, it is much more black ██ ██ metal, and has a much more wintry atmosphere, and these ██ ██ are all things that really make this album shine even if ██ ██ other things like the production and overall songwriting ██ ██ aren't as great. ██ ██ The band here was just getting started so this ██ ██ nonetheless is a great start. The songs on this album are ██ ██ generally short, but there are 14 tracks, which puts the ██ ██ album at a good length. A lot of the songs start off with ██ ██ a bit of acoustic guitar, and you could even hear the ██ ██ frigid howling winds on the beginning of "Freezing Winds ██ ██ of North". The songs are all generally mid to fast paced, ██ ██ Catamenia really doesn't have any really slow or really ██ ██ fast songs. The instruments are pretty great, though at ██ ██ times the guitar seems to be in the background because of ██ ██ the loud synths and keyboards, but they do sound ██ ██ beautiful and add a ton of atmosphere. The vocals are ██ ██ very good, a raspy scream which goes very well with the ██ ██ production and overall sound of the album. ██ ██ Some highlight tracks are "Dreams Of Wonderland" with its ██ ██ wonderful acoustic beginning quickly exploding with a ██ ██ loud scream. "Into Infernal" has another acoustic but ██ ██ less doomy beginning which is also great. "Freezing Winds ██ ██ Of North" has a great melody with catchy riffs, and is ██ ██ one of the faster paced songs, and is very nice ██ ██ throughout. "Pimea Yo" is also a good song with a nice ██ ██ acoustic beginning with acoustic guitars popping up here ██ ██ and there throughout the song. It is less melodic, but ██ ██ not too heavy. ██ ██ As a whole, the songs on this album are very similar, but ██ ██ they are also very catchy and provide an amazing ██ ██ atmosphere, the sound of the album makes you picture ██ ██ yourself in beautiful north Scandinavian areas. ██ ██ ██ ██ Ripper's Note : ██ ██ This release has been done from the russian retail CD (cat ██ ██ number : CDM 0901-685). The original album was released in ██ ██ January the 20th, 1998 by Massacre Records. ██ █▓ ▓█ ▓▒ URL........: http://www.catamenia.net/ ▓█ ░░ ▓█ ░ ┌─┬─┬─┬┬┬─┐ ┌─┬─┬┬┬─┐ ▓█ █▄ │┌│││││││││ │││││││└┤ ▓█ ▄██████████████████████████████████████████████■ │├┤ ┤││││┌┘ │││┌┤ ├┐│ ▓█ ██▀ █▀ └─┴┴┴─┴─┴┘ └┴┴─┴┴┴─┘ ▓█ ██ ▒█ █▓ ▒█ █▓ Da-DudeZ are a bunch of friends who enjoy good music. ▒█ █▓ Since August 2004, our goal is to bring you the music ▒█ █▓ we like, mostly rock/metal/goth/alt/indie/punk. ▒█ █▓ ▒█ █▒ We are not focused on quantity nor speed, but we're ▒█ █▒ working hard on producing high quality releases. ▒█ █▒ All our releases are ripped using EAC (Secure mode), ░█ █▒ compressed with LAME (-V 0 --vbr-new), formatted with ░█ █▒ lotsa attention (tags, releases infos, ...) and checked ░█ █░ very carefully. ░█ █░ ░█ █░ We're currently looking for affils 10/100mbit EU. ░█ █░ Don't hesitate to contact us. You know where to find us! ▒█ █░ ▒█ █▒ GREETZ......: To all the 'just for fun' ripping groups ▓█ █▒ out there. ▓█ █▒ ▓█ █▓ ██ █▓ ██ ██▄ :[ ASCii by The L3b0wsk1z ]: ▄██ ████▄▄ ▄▄████ ▀███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▀ ████████████████████▄ ███████████████████▄▄ █████████████████████████ ███████████████████████▄ ███████████████████████▄ █████████████████████████ █████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███████ █████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███████ ██████ ███████ █████ ▀█████ █████ ▀█████ ████████ █████ ▄█████ █████ ▄█████ █████████ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░