88. Witherfall – “A Prelude to Sorrow”

Sometimes I am not quite sure where I exactly stumble upon the records that end up in the list as I continually keep my ears and eyes out for new interesting stuff. This could have come from Metal Hammer or a recommendation from a friend but it's really rather good. Gothic tinged quite aggressive power metal is probably my best attempt at a description as its got dollops loads of melody and clean vocals but there is also tons of ethereal atmosphere and also a real oomph. It's also got lots of Prog in there with time changing agogo and lots going on. As said not sure how I happened upon it and now very little about the band (so expect no history lessons) I just know I really liked it.