Legacy of Heathens

How people fail to see through the schemes of bands like this is beyond me. How could someone give this band any accolades for anything, except for forgery and identity theft?

This is so blatantly a rip off of Ensiferum, it's just unimaginable to me that someone would not see it and instantly be turned off. It surprising manages to sound exactly like Ensiferum - that is, if Ensiferum sucked.

I'm going to try to keep this short, because this clearly offensive release deserves little of my time.

The production is clean and the vocals are just a pinch too loud. The guitars are melodic in a forgettable way. There is some fast yet repetitive lead guitar work that ultimately is just fast for fast's sake and is otherwise pretty inane. The vocalist is average to sub-par in all aspects.

The songs are structured just like the band they counterfeited, with a even mix of slower, folky parts and fast speed metal-esque parts. The most noticeable thing that these shams failed at doing right is that somehow the drumming just manages to be weaker than shit. The drummer does the same lifeless, half-hearted stupid beat over and over again with few fills and no variations. It's hard to understand just how one succeeds in playing drums so devoid of spirit or zest.

This album instantly loses 50 points for the band trying to clone one of the greatest metal bands from their country. The only saving grace of this album is the guitar playing (mostly just the acoustic parts), which can be at times moderately catchy or fun - and is really occasionally the only thing that avoids sounding completely identical to Ensiferum.

Don’t get this unless you want to insult Ensiferum. Bands like this have no room in metal. They clutter the metal scene uselessly, and get recognition for cloning bigger bands, when other bands who are doing unique, and great stuff go unnoticed - so, don't get this unless you want to insult all of metal.