Burntfield
Impermanence

I wrote about Burntfield a few years ago when they released the debut album Hereafter, I liked that album quite a bit. Not comes the second album from the trio that is creatively led by Juho Myllylä, and it certainly looks interesting with an atmospheric and slightly bleak cover and music to reflect that. And this band doesn’t just make strong music, they also have the decency to keep a good website where you can see info on their albums even with production information and such things, way too few bands understand the benefit of a good website and rely on idiotic social media that is useless for anything but churning out small snippets of information.

They belong in the progressive category with an album that spans a progressive spectrum, mostly in an atmospheric and low tempo style. The strength of this album is in the atmospheric part with an atmosphere that reflects the cover, a pleasant shade of grey would be a fairly fitting way to describe it. The vocals of Juho fits the style really well and adds emotional depth to the songs, the songs that are eight with a playing time that seems almost perfect. The variation over the songs is good, and I find it difficult to find flaws in Burntfield’s newest creating.

Impermanence is a pretty excellent album with great tracks all the way from the opener to the end, I also like the way they keep a coherency throughout where it seems like the songs relate to one another. The best tracks might be the opener and the title track, but it is a difficult choice to pick a favourite of eight great tracks. The one slightly negative aspect might be that the album is low paced, so if you like faster songs it might be more difficult to appreciate the album. Other than that there is nothing to complain about, I think that Burntfield has taken a little step forward from their great debut to this one, and it is an album that I will keep playing even after having finished this review.

This is worth checking out, especially for those of you who enjoy the atmospheric and progressive style of rock/metal. I think the trio has put together another strong album, and that they are a band to commit to memory as I don’t think this will be the last time they make an impressive album.

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