Eleine – All Shall Burn

Label: Black Lodge Records
Releasedate: 22-11-2019

Eleine was founded by lead vocalist Madeleine Liljestam & guitarist/growler Rikard Ekberg in 2014.

Personally I had never heard of them but I was pleasantly surprised by this album. Even though the album only contains 5 tracks, they are very striking and a pleasure to listen to. They definitely love long tracks, as none of them are under 4 minutes.

I just love the intro to the first track ‘Enemies’, a heavy bass riff for nearly a minute before Madeleine’s beautiful and dulcet voice comes in, which compliments the whole composition. Well-written song where the instruments and voices are working together in perfect harmony. Fast and heavy with a lovely female voice and male grunts.

The album title song ‘All shall burn’ continues where track 1 left off, slow rumble into a full metal track which is a little reminiscent of Nightwish’s ‘Sahara’ (my personal opinion). Very pleasant to listen to and the they throw some enjoyable guitar solos in too.

The third track is all to familiar to metal fans all over the world; it is a cover of Rammstein’s ‘Mein Herz brennt’ and their version sounds absolutely fine. I am quite sure the guys of Rammstein would approve and be quite proud of this rendition.

Next is ‘Hell Moon (we shall never die)’, very slow and dreamy symphonic metal. Absolute genius composition which takes you on a journey away from the daily hussle and bussle. The male and female voices bounce of each other against a full orchestral background.

The next song compliments the previous; a symphonic version of ‘All shall burn’, slowed down and now with backing of a full orchestra. It now sounds more like a feature movie soundtrack. Still expertly written and executed, I cannot fault the musicians or singers.

Personally I cannot wait to hear more from them. Their musical talents are definitely interesting and this album will put them more in the limelight among others in this genre.

Line up:

• Madeleine “Eleine” Liljestam – Vocals
• Rikard Ekberg – Guitar/Growl/Vocals
• Ludwig Dante – Guitar
• Jesper Sunnhagen – Drums
• Anton Helgesson – Bass

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