Valinor - Hidden Beauty
Valinor is ofcourse a name we all know from the Lord Of The Rings but this Valinor hails from Poland. Valinor plays symph black death metal. Till now they recorded two albums "Remembrance" and "It Is Night" but I don't know them so I will have to do with this one. "Hidden Beauty" has an intro and 9 songs. After one listening round I pressed the play button once more. What I heard is very nice. The tracks have two layered guitars, raw vocals and power and full drums. Also hearing keyboards but they are part of the bombastic background and guidelines for the melody. The songs played in up tempo and consist of various melodies within a song. Also the instrumental title track is a nice thoughtful restpoint before the last two tracks set in. At the end I must say I enjoyed this album a lot.
1. Prologue
2. Hidden Beauty
3. The Voice of Space
4. The Funeral
5. A Hand of Dead
6. Hidden Beauty – The Beginning (Instrumental)
7. Requiem
8. The Bloodless Face
9. Epilogue
