Weltenende

A Winter Lost is a three-piece black metal band from Canada, they've been around since 2005, previously under another name, Ashes of Christ, where they released an EP before switching to A Winter Lost, where they've put out their debut album. And it's nothing special I must say.

The production is decent, drums are put behind the thick and raw guitar sound. The vocals are then put kinda beside that. The production could be much worse though. The vocals on this album are performed by a woman apparently, "K Dylla", even though she's a woman, her harsh black metal vocals are nothing new, really. She also performs clean vocals on this record, and those aren't even good.

The band seems to try and be a bit more progressive with acoustic guitar parts such as in the song "Weltende", where the clean vocals kicks in, but it doesn't really stand out. The riffing is supposed to be a bit melancholic at times, like after the acoustic guitar part, but it fails miserably and I am more bored than touched or anything. The album in general manages to bore me, with a song like "Der Schrei" which is five and a half minute of just boring riffing over and over again with black metal vocals, totally waste of my time.

The band tries to be creative once again in a song like "Aus der Welt", with more acoustic guitar along the drumming, and then once again, the clean vocals. I can see the what the band might have wanted me to picture in my head, which is a winter covered landscape. But I do not find it very beautiful or anything, but rather just ugly and cold, and I feel like going home to drink some hot choclate.

The lyrics here are in German, I find it kinda silly that they do not sing in their own language, but perhaps it is pretty creative not to sing in English in Canada, who knows. Or maybe they just write the lyrics to improve their language since they claim to have studied it.

All in all, this album is pretty bad I must say. Nothing new here, it's rather boring. It's mostly decent drumming along some boring riffing and standard black metal vocals. In between you'll hear some acoustic guitar parts with some clean female vocals, and those parts does not even manage to catch my attention but rather put me further into boredom. There are much better black metal releases out there, and I do not think you are missing anything here. This record would be a waste of your time.