Track Listing

1. Scythe
2. Lost Hill of Memories
3. Infection
4. Poison Tears
5. Riddle of Stars
6. Romance and Wrath
7. Divided Heart
8. Totentanz
9. Death and the Suffering
10. Dominhate

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123990 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Power Meatal from Italy
Elvenking play power metal with a folk twist by including a violin as an integral part of their songs. They are competant musicians and their songs are well written and thoughtful. As one might surmise from the title, "the Scythe" deals with the many different opinions about death. Most of the tunes are upbeat and pretty standared 80's influenced old school heavy metal with the violin. If you like that sort of thing, this disk is for you.
Although I enjoy this record, I give it four rather than five stars since there are really no stand out tracks like Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" or Maiden's "Run to the Hills". But this is still a good album and if you are a power metal fanatic it is worth getting.

Not an emo album.
This music does not have so much as a HINT of emo or "core" influences. There is prominent melodic death metal elements, but haters don't seem to know what it is they hate. To say that this album is EMO or NU-METAL is misleading and couldn't be further from the truth. This is a POWER METAL album, and a damned good one at that.

That said, this is definitely a heavier album than Elvenking's other "folkier" albums, but the folk elements are still there... just subdued. If you are a fan of Mercenary, Raintime, or Scar Symmetry, I almost guarentee you'll like this album after a few spins.

Now on to the actual content... WOW. This album grew on me quickly to the point where it blows me away every time I pop it in. Early favorites (great places to start with this album) were "The Divided Heart", "The Scythe", and "Poison Tears". I eventually came to like every song savor "Totentanz" - a strange interlude track with some spectacular acoustics but it's definitely not a sing-along.

With this album you will get crushing melodic guitars, bombastic arrangements, and mostly (not overly whiney!) clean vocals... with some harsh grunts scattered about here and there. There are strange interlude passages between each song which are kind of lame, but they are short and don't hurt the musical experience much. 5 stars - excellent, essential to all who like power metal with an extreme touch.

3.5
I really loved the first 3 albums (as well as two tragedy poets) and have been following Elvenking for a while, but this album just enters the realms of NU-METAL and EMO a little too much for my liking.
This is not to say its all bad. There are still some really great moments and songs, such as Lost Hill of Memories and A Riddle of Stars.
still worth it, but at times a bit dissapointing.
but whatever two tragedy poets totally made up for it!