review by: Roberto Martinelli

The first track of this album sounds like Aramath, Woodtemple's sole member, borrowed all of the keyboards and hardware that Rob Darken uses on his Lord Wind and Graveland projects and produced a similar, metal's-answer-to-the-"Conan the Barbarian"-movie-soundtrack music, a synthesized sound that rather cheesily evokes images of virile exploits amongst untouched wilderness. And that's totally great, as it's good fun to get lost in the atmosphere of this bombastic, dramatic music. But that's just the intro.

The rest of the CD is remarkably well-done black metal that has a strong, early Burzum-meets-Lord Wind style to it in terms of the warbling guitars, but with lower, rougher vocals, more slowly developing structures, and super cool, authentic-sounding medieval drums. Feel the Anger of the Wind conjures images of the awe and power of barbarians marching to war; a sort of primordial, Dark Age hymn of savage glory. All the right feeling and delivery is there: the trudging through forests mystic with simple, gloomy splendor; the images of spiked implements of war; and the ancient, timeless monolith of black metal as it was intended. You so need this album. (8/10)