Winter Heroes

All good things come in threes. And so "Heroes" is something like the third part of a trilogy for Winter. A trilogy that began in 2021 with the highly praised album "Pale Horse", continued in 2022 with the darker and harder "Fire Rider" and is now celebrating its furious finale with "Heroes". Winter's music is an exciting mix of goth sound and 80s-style rock, heavy metal and pop. The album opener "Pop/Metal/Winter" presents the matching signature song. After this radio-friendly introduction, things get more serious and darker. With its female choirs and deep voice, "Dream Chase" is reminiscent of genre colleagues like Mono Inc. and is already a hit in the black scene. The title song is a first-class rock anthem that goes deep (even lyrically in times of war) and has a long-lasting effect. In between, the multi-instrumentalist Markus Winter (drums handled by Hugo Ribeiro from Moonspell, otherwise Markus plays all the instruments himself) serves catchy pop rock ("Sugar And Love", "Hot Love"), rough metal that is reminiscent of Megadeth's best times ("Sign Of The Devil"), a country excursion ("Where The River Meets The Sea") and "A Dying Man's Pryer", the musically and lyrically oppressive autobiography of a murderer. The CD version also includes a rocking cover version of the Reinhard Mey chanson "Ich Wollte Wie Orpheus Singen". Winter has never been more diverse. It's high time to discover him.