Church of Metal

One of my favorite songs of the album Chronicles of the Dead by Falchion is “Shadows In The Wasteland.”

This is a really good song, it has melodic guitar riffs, lots of drum fills, double bass and really good growling metal vocals!

A “Falchion” is a one-handed, single-edged sword of European origin, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.

In regards to this band: “Falchion was a Finnish heavy metal band formed in 2002. Their debut album, Legacy of Heathens, was released in 2005. The vocalist and lead guitarist Juho Kauppinen and drummer Matti Johansson perform with the Finnish folk metal group Korpiklaani, as the accordion player and drummer, respectively. The band split up in 2009.”

You can listen to the song here by clicking play:

Lyrics to Falchion Shadows In The Wasteland:

In the starlight, hallucinating
Knee-deep in a lake of fire
Radiated, mutated
Fade away to the darkness

Shattered dreams, twisted nightmares
All I hear is everlasting silence
A flash of bright light in the night
My mind got clearer, focusing thoughts

In the coming days I can see the new dawn of man
No more dead and gone, no more lost in the desert sand
In the distant skies, roaring storm cracks open the sky
We’re rising from the shadows in the wasteland

I see patterns in darkened forms
All the colors are out of space
Visions unlike I’ve never seen or known
All fade away as I feel the shiver

“Shadows in the Wasteland” is from the album Chronicles of the Dead by Falchion.

Here is another band I like, but honestly do not know much about, Falchion. I looked them up on wikipedia, and this is all there was:

“Falchion was a Finnish heavy metal band formed in 2002. Their debut album, Legacy of Heathens, was released in 2005″ But it did not mention the second album, ….

Their follow up album Chronicles of the Dead was released in 2008.

“The vocalist and lead guitarist Juho Kauppinen and drummer Matti Johansson perform with the Finnish folk metal group Korpiklaani, as the accordion player and drummer, respectively. The band split up in 2009.”

The album I am listening to as I type this is Chronicles of the Dead and it is melodic death metal. I really like the vocals, however there are no clean vocals on this one. I never discuss production or technical ability, I just post good stuff so enjoy.

Falchion Chronicles of the Dead

1. Primitive Again
2. Chronicles Of The Dead
3. Shadows In The Wasteland
4. Kingdom Of Dust
5. Desert Breeze
6. Shades Of Gray
7. Dying Dreams
8. Mayhem Machine
9. Evolution In Reverse

Falchion Chronicles of the Dead is a combination of many types of metal including melodic death and power metal.