Wilderun "Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock, Folk
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 7, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Dust and Crooked Thoughts 02:54
2. And So Opens the Earth (Ash Memory Part I) 05:36
3. Hope and Shadow (Ash Memory Part II) 03:04
4. Bite the Wound (Ash Memory Part III) 05:21
5. The Faintest Echo (Ash Memory Part IV) 05:39
6. The Garden of Fire 09:51
7. Linger 07:57
8. The Means to Preserve 11:01
9. Sleep at the Edge of the Earth 02:37

Line-up: 
Evan Berry - Vocals, Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Mandolin, Melodica
Dan Müller - Bass, Autoharp, Dulcimer
Wayne Ingram - Slide Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Backing Vocals
Jon Teachey - Drums
Joe Gettler - Lead Guitar
   With
Jocko - Additional guitar on "The Means to Preserve"

Description/Reviews: 

...they have continued to develop their style into an even more expansive approach, taking the folk and meshing it up with progressive and even progressive death metal into a far more demanding and in its own way more extreme piece of fusion metal that transcends genre borders with ease and will highly probably bring more than its fair share of listeners to the brink of despair.
 Starting out with acoustic guitars, light keyboards and tons of atmosphere and then adds the mandolin for a finishing touch on “Dust and Crooked Thoughts”, setting the mood nicely, until the four-part “Ash Memory” is kicked off with “And So Opens the Earth” and it quickly becomes clear that Sleep at the Edge of the Earth is a highly ambitious affair to try to pull off. Fully instrumental in its first two minutes we are treated by symphonic folk metal at its best, which is underlined even more when the excellent clear vocals join in, which soon see growls as a counterpart, but it works, all the way to the progressive undertones in some of the vocal harmonies. Things can change at the drop of a dime, but it is always very clear that Wilderun do not just randomly piece together things, but put a lot of thought and effort into creating a flow and depth.

 Read the full review by Alex Melzer at metal-observer.com

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