The past couple of weeks have been really cold. The media calls it the Beast From The Baltic, a bit like the Beast From The East, which brought proper ice and snow in London three years ago when I moved here from Berlin. There hasn’t been much snow, to be fair, but the temperature has dropped below 0ºC and even stayed there for several days. It should be getting warmer soon though. I can feel the spring is just behind the corner!

The second pick on my albums of the decade list is The Forest Seasons by Wintersun.

I heard Wintersun’s music for the first time in 2006 when I started getting more and more into folk metal. I have no memory of how I found the band, but back then they had released only one album. Everyone was waiting for the upcoming masterpiece, later to be titled as Time I, but that’s not really their best album. Don’t get me wrong though, it is an insanely good album as well and has the most beautiful intro I’ve ever heard.