It doesn't happen very often, that a self produced album reaches my house, which is not from Germany or Austria, so I was really curious, how Italian AISLING would sound like. The first impression was pretty good, because here are a lot of different elements united, started from the pretty slow piano-intro, followed by highspeed attacks that can doubtless be labeld as Melodical Black Metal und completed with Folk Parts, including the sound of the wind. The band calls their style "Pagan Metal", but I can't say, that it`s the right definition, because there are too many styles united to describe them with simply one word. But after listening to the album for several times, I noticed, that these various styles seem to "harm" the band, because sometimes they can't combine them into a whole thing and can't write song structures that are recognizeable, so one gets the impression, that AISLING doesn't know, what they really want. Usually I love complex song structures, but if you can't find any connection between the elements, even not after 50 times of listening, then it becomes pretty frustrating. It's a pitty, because I can see how much love was used to create this part of music and also the sound and the technical abilitys are really good, but they can't compense the lack of structures.

My commandations go to the one, who designed the 8-pages booklet, because it's really pretentious and fits perfect to the music - this professional artwork made it hard for me, to believe that this album wasn't released by a label.

To those, who don't like complex structures at all, I can say, that they won't like this album - but the others can try and listen to Aisling - maybe they will be able to orientate themselves in here.