Wilderun "Epigone"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock
Label: Century Media Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: January 7, 2022
Tracklist

1. Exhaler (4:44) 

2. Woolgatherer (14:11) 

3. Passenger (9:58) 

4. Identifier (11:32) 

5. Ambition (2:40) 

6. Distraction I (4:56) 

7. Distraction II (5:39) 

8. Distraction III (5:45) 

9. Distraction Nulla (3:14) 

Bonus Tracks:

10. Everything In Its Right Place (Radiohead Cover) (3:56) 

11. Exhaler (Synth Mix) (4:32) 

Total Time 71:07 

Line-up

Evan Berry - vocals, guitars, piano

Joe Gettler - lead guitar

Wayne Ingram - orchestration

Daniel Müller - bass, synths, orchestration

Jonathan Teachey - drums

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Passenger (Radio Edit)

Identifier (Radio edit)

Distraction I

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Wilderun "Veil of Imagination"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Symphonic/Folk/Death Metal/Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 1, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. The Unimaginable Zero Summer (14:32)
2. O Resolution! (6:35)
3. Sleeping Ambassadors Of The Sun (6:31)
4. Scentless Core (Budding) (3:33)
5. Far From Where Dreams Unfurl (8:28)
6. Scentless Core (Fading) (5:21)
7. The Tyranny Of Imagination (9:21)
8. When The Fire And The Rose Were One (11:51)

Total Time 66:12

Line-up: 
Evan Anderson Berry - Vocals, Guitars, Piano
Dan Müller - Bass, Synths, Orchestrations, Gang vocals
Jon Teachey - Drums, Gang vocals
Joe Gettler - Lead Guitar, Gang vocals
Wayne Ingram - Orchestrations, Gang vocals
  With
Rob Berry - Piano (8)
Emily Thompson - Additional piano
Doug James - Spoken word

Description/Reviews: 

Veil of Imagination is an exceptional demonstration of metal embracing the sublime. With their debut and sophomore albums, Wilderun established themselves as one of the most exciting young voices in modern progressive metal, blending the grandiosity of folk and symphonic metal with the sonic depth of melodeath. There were clear parallels with Opeth and Wintersun, along with a host of other folk and pagan metal mainstays like Eluveitie, Ensiferum, Equilibrium, and so on. And yet, Wilderun still established their own identity, which they’ve developed further on Veil of Imagination. It’s their most fully-realized version of this formula and reaches cinematic heights you might hear on a Devin Townsend album. It’s a stunning, gorgeous exercise in prog metal songwriting that will surely make its mark long after this year.

Read the full review by Scott Murphy at heavyblogisheavy.com

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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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