Track Listing

1. Into the Fire
2. Head Up High
3. Mercenary Man
4. Angels Forgive Me
5. Remembered
6. My Loneliness
7. Circle of Life
8. Silent Code
9. Maniac [*]
10. Life Foreclosed

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32235 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Great album after a couple of spins.
I think this is a good follow-up to "The Allegiance". Although there are only 10 tracks on this one, they are strong, well-written, and do the job. The first spin may not leave you impressed, but after a couple more times through the record, you'll really dig it.

Vocals = 5/5. Great job on the vocals by Apollo. Nice and heavy, but at the same time melodic. Again, sounds like a mix of Roy Khan and Geoff Tate.

Guitar work = 5/5. Amazing guitar work by Gus, as usual. What a talented musician.

Production = 4.5/5. Nice, clean, non-distorted.

Length of solos and songs = 4/5. As a solo junkie, I found myself wishing for a few longer solos...but this may not be an issue to others. Songs are about 4 minutes long on average.

Overall = 4.5/5. Great album that you can listen to anywhere. This band is very talented and I would love to see them Live if they ever come here to the US.

Not as good as the last album....
Firewind is a band that I discovered sometime a year ago & they were one of the bands that got me to get into power metal more than ever in recent years. Most of their albums are great ('Burning Earth' was OK) & their last one 'Allegiance' was AWESOME, but unfortunately after coming off an excellent album such as the latter, they didn't come through this time like I hoped that they would. 'The Premonition' definitely has the sound & excellent production of 'Allegiance' but the songs are not as good. I would say there are a few cool ones but that's about it. Maybe after a few listens I will appreciate it more but it definitely could have been better. Stand out tracks are "Mercenary Man," "Angels Forgive Me," "My Loneliness," & "Life Foreclosed."

Power Metallic Blast Furnace
I saw Firewind this Fall open for Sontata Arctica. Only having heard of them but not knowing their songs I litened. From Greece, birth place of Western Civilization. Land of Olympus. Should be a great place to forge metal, the ancients did it there so well. And I was impressed with the vocals and cadences immediately. As it was all new there was no time for disitillation but the wine went in the barrel and so began to age in the cellar.

I kept thinking of Firewind but never bought an album for the months to come. Somehow the aging had to reach a critical point. Then I saw the video for Mercenary Man and almost immediately ordered Premonition. Had I had the $$ i would have orderd all their albums and I soon will, Im certain of it.

The melodies are different from the Scandinavian Metal that I ususally listen to. There is even a Mediterranean feel to some songs like "My Lonliness". The driving movement of the waves, what I really want form metal, its all there. Solos are good but I would like more time allotted to them. Some heavy American style bluesy metal breaks through at times. I am so far incredibly satiated with the travelling wave integration.

This album was actually mixed in Sweden and there is an unmistakeable Nordic current running through, the Grecean alpine slopes of Olympus being much more like the arctic than the Mediterranean coast as well. A fine place for another epic to launch.

Not being a long time listener to Firewind I cant judge this album against the others yet, I can only evaluate the band itself against the backdrop of metal I like, much of it from far lands to the North of Greece. I can say that Olympus and Valhol play each others metal at all banquets. Firewind is like a finely forged sword from the hand of Hephaestus himself.