FIMBULVINTER

KORNMO are an instrumental trio out of Norway including Odd-Roar Bakken who was in the Lord Of The Rings wasn't he? Anyway he is in the band ADVENTURE and I reviewed one of their albums recently. He pays a variety of keyboards and guitar on here while we get Nils Larsen on bass who also wrote the music. Nils son Anton J.R. Larsen is the drummer and he also mixed and produced the album while all three arranged the music. Oh and Jacob Holm-Lupo from WHITE WILLOW and many more bands mastered it.

The music is Symphonic and slow to mid-paced without much in the way of breakouts and at over 71 minutes I did find this a tedious listen at times. Kind of samey and uniform as well and I did think of FRUITCAKE who I like but this is different without the vocals in play. Just about all the information in the liner notes is in Norwegian except where they say to go to Facebook to get the English version.

Some really nice music on here but I lack the patience. Plenty of organ and synths on this one and it's very retro and warm but just not my thing. There are so many positive reviews on this album around the internet so my review just offer a different opinion. Yeah lets go with that. The album's title come from Norse mythology and the cover art seconds that name meaning Great Winter which according to this mythology will come before the end of the world. This really was a change of pace for me but please check them out.