Fimbul Winter, hailing from the Stockholm metropolitan area, is a band that has been around since 2023 and consists of three-quarters ex-members of Amon Amarth. With “What Once Was,” they now present their debut EP, which features five tracks with a playing time of 24 minutes, released independently by the band.
When former members of a well-known band start something new, or musicians pursue a side project alongside their main activity, they are intuitively compared to their previous or current main activity. This is, in a sense, in the nature of things, and Fimbul Winter (not to be confused with the Norwegian band Fimbulwinter, written as one word, which released the great “Servants of Sorcery” in 1994 with a certain Shagrath in their ranks, later known from Dimmu Borgir) deal openly with this fact and communicate it—and why not, after all, they were part of one of the biggest and most famous death metal bands ever.
