Gonna listen in a moment. I predict a trainwreck. For one, the first album was already really really overdone and this one is supposed to be even more bombastic, and regardless albums which spend this long in production pretty much never turn out well (Chinese Democracy, ORwarriOR).
EDIT: I listened to Land of Snow and Sorrow. It's pretty much exactly like the first album, no evolution at all...it's a slow one, so it's pretty much slow Ensiferum with a dose of Tales from the Thousand Lakes. There's maybe one riff that I've already forgotten, the rest is all keyboards and sustained power chords. I expected this to be a lot of shredding and blasting and over-the-top keyboards that would be worth a laugh, but this is just...nothing. Like musical cotton candy. I don't hate it, but there's just nothing going on here.
EDIT 2: Sons of Winter and Stars. I think they're trying to be evil or something. It's really hard to believe they spent 8 years on this. The musicianship is immaculate and there's a fuckton of keyboards everywhere but as far as the songwriting this kinda just seems slapped together.
