Elffor "Frostbitten Pain" CD Digipack (Bonustrack)

120 CD limited edition + bonus track booklet and original new artwork!!

It’s been more than ten years since Elffor’s first work, Into the Dark Forest, came to life and since then his career has been nothing less than superb. Long play after long play, Elffor has refined and purified his style, his feelings, and also his message with a very intimate, personal, and unusual music. In 2010 appeared Frostbitten Pain, a work that generated truly high expectations in the Spanish scene.
Once the album is in your hands, you realize all the care and the details put into the digipack version, quality linked with the content we will enjoy later. A package is at the same levels of quality of other Elffor albums as was the case of the “From the Throne of Hate” re-edition tjat we enjoyed two years ago. We are about to face five tracks with none of them under the eight minutes of duration, 45 in total.
As the music begins to flow in through our ears, we receive an initial and clear message: this is an Elffor work, not only a new one, but a genuine Elffor lp. Eöl has something...some kind of spectacular talent than permits him to recreate new paths of music inside his own style without making a single tiny step outside his standards. It’s like the perfect evolution of a musician, a perfect equilibrium between your identity that has to last during the years and the undeniable need of evolution. Call it solemnity, call it supreme mastery in the art of ambient “extreme” music, but this is it - Elffor reinventing itself once again.
A Cold Breeze Funeral, the first track and the most martial of all of them indeed (being closest to the previous album, Woods Unblessed, I would adventure to say), shows a desolate war scenario where the keyboards set the pace with an exquisite atmospheric sound while the drums mark the timings of the pure black environmental sound, entering then the voice of Eöl which is superb as usual. "Instinct's Enslavement" presents us a much more depressing concept, maintaining an uncorrupted solemnity and even detonating some martial composition, especially with exquisite keyboards, deriving the subject to a short course of peace where the voices of Hildr Valkyrie take command, determining a stage of peace and calm, the same peace and quietness as a Basque forest at winter. This evoked feeling is probably the biggest hit of greatness on this album, a work that creates in you a rush of sensations. The third song, "Ancestral Spirit", seems like a lost track from From the Throne of Hate due to its musical similarities to that album’s sound; it's a lot darker and loaded with a huge amount of despair. In what refers to "Chaos Moon", it develops some spectacular guitar riffs and drums beats, entering the sound momentarily in a raw “old school” black metal composition, but keeps the Elffor atmosphere. Finally, "Icewind" represents something that I doubt I would be able to put into words, so just close your eyes and imagine walking through a dark snowy forest. Let yourself go.
It’s just an awesome work of Elffor’s pure essence. If you liked this guy before, you’ll enjoy this like hell. If you didn’t know him yet, this is a perfect chance.

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