I've just listened to Northwind and Among Beggars and Thieves again and I just had to open a thread about this awesome band. The history of this band goes back as far as the early 90s when Stefan Weinerhall founded Cerberus in 1992. In 1993 the band changed their name to Mithotyn. They released 3 albums in the late 90s and split up in 1999 because Weinerhall wanted to go a more melodic root and make Folk Metal with a clean singer. So the same year he founded Falconer. Through Helene Blad, who was keyboard player in Mithotyn from 1994 to 1995, he came in contact with her brother Mathias, a rather succesful stage singer. Blad was supposed to be a seasson singer, but joined the band full-time later. Blad is what makes this band special. They released 2 albums, Falconer and Chapters from a Vale Forlorn, but split with Blad in 2002 because the band wanted to go on tour while Blad wanted to focus more on his stage carrere. He was repaced by Kristoffer Göbel. They also released 2 albums with him. The first one, The Sceptre of Deception, was not really different from the other 2 but got a lot of unfavourable reviews because of Göbel. On the 2nd one, Grime Vs. Grandeur, all the Folk Influences were nearly completely gone and it was more of a pure Power Metal album. It wasn't really bad but again it got a lot of unfavourable reviews. In late 2005 it was announced that Göbel was fired and Blad would return. They released 2 albums, Northwind and Among Beggars and Thieves, since then and both were basicly back to the roots Folk Influenced Power Metal Albums. You should check them out:
Carnival of Disqust Videoclip:
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Cross Emotional Skies Videoclip:
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Northwind:
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