Truemetal - Top Demo - 90/100
I'll start by saying that Gothic genre is very restraining for Winter of Life, young band from Naples, that with this first demo presents a unique, original and sound. Yes, I said original, unusual term for an entry band and more unsual in a time in which it seems that originality lacks so much in extreme music...
The openness, the eclecticism of Winter of Life carries the listener away in a travel made of emotions, dreams and feelings...
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DHeadBangersZine - Top Demo - 9/10
First demo from Winter of Life, young band dedicated to a particular and unique avantgarde gothic metal. "Parentheses" is a concept album based on "love and life like a river of parentheses that open, close and fold themselves, seen by a man that along the six songs describes his travel between flashback memories and future mirages...", a particular theme, unusual and original. Winter of Life offer us a very rare pearl, made of passion and music, thinked by a band which is ultra valid both on technical skills and on music expressivity. Winter of Life deserves a prize for having created and avant-garde music that only few bands have been able to create in the story of their own compositions. You'll be hearing about them in the future...
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Power Metal - 8,5/10
...This demo is on a higher quality level than many other things I have personally heard. Winter of Life are very difficult to catalogue, their music is a mix of gothic feelings (that seems to remember Sentenced and Anathema) with an elegant and experimental approach (like progressive of Pain of Salvation or the artistic death of Novembre). In any case the band proves to have a unique music style and personality...
...I must mention the splendid lyrics written by Peppe Sgrò, never predictable and always heart-warming...
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The Murder Inn - 8,5/10
Winter of Life presents an innovative gothic metal, influenced by progressive and death, a totally new gothic touched also by alternative rock...
...A splendid union between the sound of the last Anathema and Novembre, and between Porcupine Tree and Pain of Salvation...
...I was amazed by the excellent and deep lyrics...
...The listener must be aware that he's in front of a band that could really become a big name not only in Italy, but also in the international music scene...
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Pippamentis
...Winter of Life have the gothic taste that remembers My Dying Bride and Anathema, twisting whirlpools that feel like Katatonia in Brave Murder Day, romance that remembers Opeth and Novembre...
...The band mixes toghether several metal styles, from progressive to goth passing by death, with jazz elements, achieving a marvelous result, that gets even better with poetic lyrics which amazingly plays on words...
...Winter of Life absolutely are one of the most important bands of underground italian metal...
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Metal Wave - 77/100
...Winter of Life have been able to make a really great work, thanks to their excellent technical abilities and their enviable song-writing. The band members deserve a prize for their fantasy and their ability, and we'll be heaering about them quite soon...
The Rock Explosion - 7,5/10
...A very good professional work, for a band that proves to have straight ideas and an excellent technique...
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Babylon Magazine - 7,5/10
....This work by Winter of Life is not any ordinary demo!...
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Tempi Duri
...With this demo Winter of Life prove that it's still possible to play Gothic Metal with an absolutely personal style...
...The listener's emotive involvement never fails, it's always maintained at high levels thanks to intense rhythms and to vibrant sounds...
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Metallized - 75/100
...There's a lot of passion in Winter of Life's work....
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Metal Holocaust - 7/10
...The band's most significant qualities absolutely are the feeling with melody, the taste for feel change and the technical ability of all the members of Winter of Life...
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