COLD COLOURS "Northernmost"

COLD COLOURS 

"Northernmost"

Finland is a cold and magical land near the Arctic Circle that produces some unique metal. Wait, hold on just a minute...you say Cold Colours is from Minnesota instead of Finland?? Well, I guess that makes a certain amount of sense, since Minnesota is probably closer spiritually to Finland than anywhere else in the US except maybe the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Even the cover of "Northermost" with its haunting Aurora Borealis seems like something out of Helsinki.

The music, too, has a pronounced Finnish bent, with traces of mighty Amorphis and other bands like Sentenced and Insomnium. Doomy, melodic and a bit progressive, with death metal touches as well. Maybe you need to live in the tundra to come up with this kind of sound, but Cold Colours nails it. They've been around for 20 years and "Northernmost" is the product of an experienced and professional band. The album features very brief acoustic interludes all with "Northernmost" in their name, but once we're past that, we get tracks like "Nightmare", "Terminal Winter" and "The Pale Heart" that are mid-paced, full of weeping twin guitar licks, dusted off with "cold" sounding keys and topped with death-like vocals. It's a vibe any fan of the heavier Amorphis will dig. At times, these guys also remind me of November's Doom as well.

Now and then, it seems a little too pat, like on "Spirit", and it sometimes is too close to its inspiration, but if you like that icy kind of melodic death/doom that hails from Finland, set your GPS to Minneapolis to experience Cold Colours...

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