01	Auditorium Of Modern Movements						03:36
	02	Acceleration						04:30
	03	The Concept Of Haste						04:09
	04	A Song For D. Incorporated						04:58
	05	The Green Office And The Dark Desk Drawer						04:17
	06	The Flow At 09:30 Am						06:25
	07	Of Concrete And Glass						03:14
	08	90 Angles						07:19
	09	I No Longer Know If I Am Mad						02:28
	10	Synthetic, Fabricated, Calculated						04:11

Fucking Awesome - 99%
Written by NeverEndingNosebleed on January 18th, 2006

Before purchasing this album, I had heard the song Acceleration from a free download. I was blown away at the mix of amazing keyboard work and awesome guitar riffs. It prompted me to buy the album just a week later, and I do not regret it one bit.

The production is top notch. Everything can be heard clearly and fine. Every key pushed down and every string played can be heard perfectly.

The guitar work is great. It varies from fast, thrashy to slow, melodic riffs. (All in one song, too.) Hellhammer's drumming isn't the fast, brutal drumming we're used to. He drums slow in this release, something I didn't know he was capable of doing. He does a damn good job of it too, fitting with the guitar riffs perfectly. The bass is there, but is seldom really heard.

The two main highlights of this CD are the vocals and keyboards. I hadn't heard Lars Nedland's vocal work before, but boy was I impressed. The man can fucking sing and he can do it well. His voice is soothing and relaxing, staying at the same tone for most of the CD. Definitely one of the best clean vocalists I've heard.

Andy Winter is a god at playing the keyboards. Every song brings a different feeling to it with his keyboarding. When it's mixed with the guitars, it's simply amazing. He seems to build up on so many different genres of playing. He seems to play jazz-style a lot on this release, even mixing in some hip-hop like beats. The combo of vocals, awesome guitar riffs, and his keyboarding creates an extravagant mood and sound. It brings the listener into an almost trance like state.

This CD is for everyone; the black metal grave-robbers, the death metal intestine-eaters, or thrash metallers stuck in 1986. Highly fucking recommended.
Not great at all - 75%
Written by cinedracusio on October 24th, 2005

This is a kind of supergroup, formed by personalities like Lars of Solefald fame and Hellhammer from Mayhem. This is not avantgarde, it is exclusively progressive metal.
Hellhammer did a good job, showing that his drumming is much more than blackened racing beats. The songs are not very fast, generally they play at mid-paced speeds. Another high point are Lars' vocals, certainly one of the warmest and most emotional vocals in the metal territory, not the annoying power-bitch deal, nor the throaty growls.
It seems that the guy that does most of the deal, however, is this Andy Winter. The riffs are not virtuoso stuff at all, they consist of simple chord progressions, and they are also a little bit buried under the others. So, as I said, this Andy Winter is a skillful piano player, that's for sure, but there is a flaw in his playing. Yes, he is skillful and his playing fits perfectly, technically speaking, but he lacks the emotion and subtle beauty that we can find at others like him (take Mirai from Sigh, for example).
Overall, a VERY decent to disappointing release, for its members.
Above and beyond. - 96%
Written by LifeInAFireBox on January 20th, 2005

This CD is a gem. First off, you have Hellhammer on drums. The grand and meloncholy vocals of Lars Nedland. Not to mention the wizard of a pianist, Andy Winter. Age of Silence is only really one member short of being Winds.

Before looking up info on this band, I immidietly picked up on the vocals, and how familiar they sounded. I knew them from Asmegin. In general, that's what the whole of the vocals sound like.

This disc is like Vintersorg, but actually more abstract at times. There is a sweet palette of songs laid out here, all sounding different, stylistically. Ranging anywhere from dark jazz, to middle eastern, to progressive folk, and beyond.

Hellhammer also shows his talent in being able to play so different a style from the bands most people know him from. (Mayhem, Immortal, The Kovenent) I would never have guessed he could pull off such a perfomance. His drumming here is precise, flowing, and very professional.

A couple highlight tracks:

"A Song for D. Incorperated" A very epic track. Folk, classical, electronic, and death metal lurking underneath it all. Ever second is filled with technicallity and beauty. Very meloncoly (not in the depressed Goth sense) and very harmonious vocals.

"Acceleration" An atmospheric track. Dark and abstract as Hell. Catchy as Hell, also. When you hear this song, you know what the band's all about. Growling, singing, a folk flow, classical elements, with an over all movie soundtrack feel. So epic, and sometimes majestic sounding ...

"90 Degree Angles" What a catchy and beautiful song. It's all here. Softness versus heaviness, anthmatic chorus, complexity, style out the wazzo, and enough weird to make Micheal Jackson do a double take.

The true highlight of the album: Andy Winter. This man, is simply a genius. He fuses together jazz and classical in a smooth way. His parts come in many forms; broken and awkward, flowing and gorgeous, or dark and otherworldly. Where in Winds, he and Tidemann trade on and off the spotlight, Andy steals the show, so to speak, in this band. To me anyway, he is definetely the focal point of the band.

For any fan of progressive, you absolutely must get this.
The reasons are as follows, in no particular order of importance:
1. Andy Winter is genius
2. There's no other band in which you will find so many genre's combined
3. No other album will you find such smooth combination of these musical elements
4. Fantastic vocals
5. A great performance by Hellhammer, and a very surprising one
6. Andy Winter is genius
7. Every song sound completely different
8. ... um ... Andy Winter is genius, did I mention that yet?

Seriously - though I know most are too close-minded, I think everyone should check this astounding peice of music out.