Musically the quintet showcases melodic Black Metal with keyboard-support, what in itself isn't necessarily reason for too much enthusiasm, but the execution is what makes this record stand out. If you take the opening title-track as example, there you get high-class material, epic but heavy, fast but melodious and variably arranged, in the middle suddenly operaesque male vocals in quite stark contrast to the fairly harsh Black Metal-voice of Cristiano Borchi. Add to that the super-melodic instrumental "Dawn Of Winter's Solstice" and you hear, what STORMLORD are capable of!

And you'll get two live-tracks, too, one of them "Creeping Death" by METALLICA and another cover-version, this one DEATH SS' "Baphomet", again with the opera-vocals, good one!

Mini-albums always are a love/hate-topic, but here you at least get "value for money" and not only because of the playing time, but also because of the song-material!