SIG:AR:TYR – Citadel of Stars (2024) – Review

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Northen wallowed in the rich history of the old Norse gone Viking. An ode to early visitors of white people to the North American continent who faced the terrible Skraeling. Science struggled with this fact, by the way. At first, the community would not confirm that early settlements existed in present-day Canada, and possibly further down South, too. And as grudging consent grew, it became clear that it wasn’t good ol’ blundering Columbus. It must have been Leif Erikson who unknowingly discovered a new continent – a few hundred years earlier.

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SIG:AR:TYR – Northen (2016) – Review

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See, it is indeed possible. You can write a complex metal tune without building brick walls so high that you won’t hear yourself anymore. And it can be done with a hike to the epic mountain top without firing up the mighty cheese machine, too. 

Speaking of which: Here is a contender to metal fame that renders Amon Amarth and their Viking friends awfully cheesy.

We are speaking about SIG:AR:TYR and their newest metal contribution Northen. I never quite knew that Viking Metal adepts brandished their tune in good ol’ Canada. Until I came across the band’s last record Godsaga. It took them some very long six years to … [...] Click to raid more!