Tempest's music is an amalgam of the ambitiousness of progressive rock, heavy metal bombast, and Celtic and Norwegian traditional music, as well as their myths. Turn of the Wheel is not always successful; Tempest try too hard and their music winds up sounding unformed and unrealized. When they do fulfill their ambitions, the group makes some of the most unique and varied heavy metal of the '90s.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Additional personnel includes: Keith Emerson (keyboards).
Tempest: Lief Sorbye (vocals, acoustic & electric mandolins, octave mandola, flute, harmonica, bodhran); Rob Wullenjohn (guitar, background vocals); Michael Mullen (violin); Jay Nania (bass); Adolfo Lazo (drums).
Blister Pack
Sing Out! (5-6-7/96, p.154) - "...Lief Sorbye...merges his Norwegian roots with neo-Celtic and progressive rock stylings....what will probably strike most listeners is the echoing influence of Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson..."
Additional personnel includes: Keith Emerson (keyboards).
Tempest: Lief Sorbye (vocals, acoustic & electric mandolins, octave mandola, flute, harmonica, bodhran); Rob Wullenjohn (guitar, background vocals); Michael Mullen (violin); Jay Nania (bass); Adolfo Lazo (drums).
Blister Pack
Sing Out! (5-6-7/96, p.154) - "...Lief Sorbye...merges his Norwegian roots with neo-Celtic and progressive rock stylings....what will probably strike most listeners is the echoing influence of Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson..."
