This reminds me of my gramp's "mixed soup". Gramps threw different good ingredients into a kettle without chopping them, cooked the soup too fast and then we just ate it. Chewing the soup was sometimes a bit annoying, because of those big pieces, but it tasted so good, that it didn't matter.

Italian Elvenking's debut album 'Heathenreel' offer quite a mixed soup of goodies for every power/folk metal fans. With very Italian spices of course!

One can hear, that these guys want to mix a biggest possible amount of different things; particularly, the presence of Italian power metal. There's also a big portion of Skyclad-esque folk-spices (beginning of 'Hobs an' Feathers' could well be from 'Folk

Reviewed by Mikki
04/18/2002 20:32