Review by Rexorcist for Paysage d'Hiver - Winterkaelte (2001)

Take an ambient or new age music lover, convert him into a metalhead: you get a fan of atmospheric black metal.  I also joke about atmo-black effectively being a music white noise machine.  Truest to the beloved format of winter-snowstorm tremelos may be Paysage d'Hiver, who made a name for himself in the underground community consistently releasing albums f this format from his debut to his most recent works.  The problem with that is quite simple: he rarely does anything different.  While his so-called "signature sound" recalls the frozen hell of the winter landscape better than most people, not only is it a little too much but quite drawn out.  Basically, it's an album with a specific niche for people who enoy it to relax to for a while.  While there's nothing wrong with that, personally I'd rather relax with an album with more imagination, as there are plenty of imaginitive albums that are both relaxing and more diverse, hence Loreena McKennitt. The long and short of it is simple: while it's pretty cool, its length is its downfall, and I'd rather listen to Paysage's debut.