White Skull--Tales From the North (1999/Nuclear Blast)
Rating--7.8
A very heavy Grave Digger and Blind Guardian influence, as there's plenty of rapid double-bass and other standard Euro-speed trademarks. Gruff vocals---along the same lines as the aforementioned groups. This band also weaves its songs into one basic theme or story--again a similarity.
A good pickup in "Viking's Tomb" accelerates the pace following a slow beginning, and "Gods of the Sea" is good. A sharp riff backbone is the focus in "The Killing Queen," and "Kriemhild Story" is nice and chunky.
All of "Asgard," "Sighting and Feasting," and "Here We Are" are solid, with a large portion of the tracks being of the fast-and-intricate nature.

TRACK LIST:

  1. The Quest (Intro)
  2. Tales From the North
  3. Asgard
  4. Gods of the Sea
  5. Viking's Tomb
  6. Kriemhold Story
  7. The Killing Queen
  8. The Terrible Slaughter
  9. Horant
  10. Sighting and Feasting
  11. Here We Are
  12. Still Alive (Outro)
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