Wolfheart – ‘Wolves Of Karelia’

Metal: it’s the bread and butter of an entire region’s heavy music scene and, like pop music, can often find itself a rather bloated genre. It’s a style stacked with talent, but equally flooded with bands that seek to reinvent the wheel, only to end up retelling the same story that has come before for over a decade. Still, there are those that seek to coat the genre with a fresh lick of paint and succeed. Wolfheart’s Tuomas Saukkonen and his band of merry miscreants have only been causing sonic mayhem since 2013, but none of its current members are new to the world of music – Saukkonen himself was part of Before The Dawn, Black Sun Aeon, and RoutaSielu before dissolving all three to focus on Wolfheart, a curious blend of death metal and symphonic music they’ve dubbed “Winter Metal”. ...