Norden Light - Shadows From The Wilderness (1987) (Sonet Grammofon Reissue 1995)

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Norden Light - Shadows From The Wilderness (1987) (Sonet Grammofon Reissue 1995)

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Norden Light - Shadows From The Wilderness (1987) (Sonet Grammofon Reissue 1995)

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Year : 1987 (Sonet Grammofon Reissue 1995)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 139 mb


Bio:

Norden Light is a hard rock group from Göteborg that was formed by Christer Mentzer and Michael Von Knorring in the mid 80s . The group began under the name Mentzer until their manager Börje Forsberg suggested that they change to the current name. Nordic Light found success in both Europe and Japan . They released an album on Sonet Records back in 1987, titled “Shadows from the Wilderness” , and played on the disc Scandinavium Metal Attack II. Nordic Light appeared also with the song “No Escape” in the Italian film “Opera” in 1987. All the songs are incredible with keyboard filled grooves and fitting guitar solos. The album start with a pounding metal song “It Hurts” with nice melodies and after that all the rest are increible too. I you like bands like Mindless Sinner, early Europe (first two albums), TNT (knights of the New Thunder era), AxeWitch and stuff like that you will love this album.

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Undoubtfully, not only American and British metal scenes were important during the 80's. Although being underground, Swedish scene gained its place. You have examples like 220 Volt or Silver Mountain. However, other bands with a brief existance in the scene released some good albums and Norden Light is one of those bands.Norden Light was a Chris Mentzer's (formerly Silver Mountain's front-man) project that survived only for 1 year due to some changes on the discographic company that gave rise to some firings, including his. Consequently, Silver Mountain and Norden Light were affected, if not splitted-up. At the end of the day, discographic companies are a business like any other, so they have to earn money, and to be honest, this album would not sell as much as Madonna did during the 80's or 90's.By the way, the sound of the album is very special and its atmosphere makes it sound like the soundtrack of a winter movie, which at the end, gives a melodic sound to the same. Maybe a good listen to Europe and Silver Mountain (resulting in a heavier version of Europe), as well as many other Swedish melodic heavy metal bands could give you a clue of how this album sounds, and surely you can notice some other different bands like Dio as an influence for Norden's sound. You may also think that the album is repetitive since many songs have similar tempos and atmospheres, but there are other kind of songs that make a difference like the speedish and explosive "No Escape" which is a very amazing song and is different from the rest of the album since it is one of the few heavy metal songs here along with "Shadows" which is a beautiful mid-tempo ballad and surely one of the best but most underrated metal songs ever. The rest are average mid tempo heavy metal songs with some traces of hard rock here and there, so regardless of its cheesy sound, the album has a lot of heavy moments and that's the difference between the same and Europe's releases. There is nothing complex here, guitar solos and riffs are very simple (solos are very brief and riffs do not use complicated scales or neoclassival tunes), keyboards are more elaborated but just enough to give an atmosphere, and Mentzer's vocals are somehow different from the vocals he used in Silver Mountain. In this album, they sound more intense and emotional which is O.K., considering that they fit with the melodic sound of the album.The album at hand is quite good, specially "Shadows" and "No Escape". If you are fanatic of AOR, you will love this album. Believe me, is a metal jewel.

Line Up:

Peter Bodefjord Bass
Michael von Knorring Drums - See also: ex-Mentzer, ex-Chris Heaven, ex-Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Johan Herlogsson Guitars - See also: ex-Mentzer
Peter Jeansson Keyboards
Christer Mentzer Vocals - See also: ex-Mentzer, ex-Silver Mountain

Tracklist:

01. It Hurts 04:48
02. Shadows 03:59
03. Nightlife 04:03
04. Aspen 04:16
05. Dancer 03:17
06. Save Me 04:03
07. Crossfire 04:45
08. No Escape 04:04
09. Legends 03:58
10. Daytime Loser 04:43


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