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/:: Artist :: XIV Dark Centuries ::\
:: Album :: Gizit Dar Faida ::
:: Year :: 2011 ::
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:: . Genre :: Metal Source :: CDDA . ::
:: Label :: Einheit Produktionen R.date :: 11.11.2011 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: EP 034 Size :: 85,5 MB __::_
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..: Bitrate :: avg. 257kbps : .
. Quality :: 44,1kHz/Joint-Stereo .
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Website :: http://www.xivdarkcenturies.de
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:: 01. WestwΣrts 02:20 ::
:: 02. Zeit der Rache 06:32 ::
:: 03. Schlachtgesang 03:57 ::
:: 04. Donars S÷hne 05:38 ::
:: 05. Hinauf zum gold'nen Tor 03:41 ::
:: 06. Eichenhain 03:14 ::
:: 07. Brennen soll das alte Leiden 04:55 ::
:: 08. Eine Wanderung 04:02 ::
:: 09. Runenraunen - Eine Wanderung II 03:44 ::
:: 10. Surtur erwacht 05:19 ::
:: 11. Ausklang 03:06 ::
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:: Heritage; tough burden, isn't it? Through older times ::
:: people used to defend or expand the common knowledge of ::
:: their area through fire and iron. Nowadays in a modernized ::
:: world where everything has become a colony of technology ::
:: and everything happens for one reason, money, the most ::
:: sincere cause to delve deep into the ancestors' nest of ::
:: nostalgia has to be music. ::
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:: XIV Dark Centuries, after five years of silence, pass ::
:: through the schism of time once again. This time their ::
:: battering ram comes under the crest of Gizit Dar Faida. ::
:: More conscious of their actions they manage to present ::
:: their most complete work to date in terms of atmosphere. ::
:: The guitar riffing marches onwards and the rhythm section ::
:: follows cantering. And guess what: you have to adore the ::
:: guitar melodies that fill the soundscape with lyrical ::
:: eloquence, either as leads or solos. Their slight echoing ::
:: edge at times evokes a divine sense, something that paces ::
:: really well with the many sing-along chanting passages ::
:: that escalate the heroic vibe and enrich it. Needless to ::
:: say, the boiling grunting battle-cries make the ambiance ::
:: more intense and lend more strength to the core of the ::
:: compositions. The keyboards are not that much this time, ::
:: but whenever they make their appearance they hold a ::
:: rewarding and uplifting ecstatic aura. ::
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:: Something that you may notice is that the album is ::
:: harmonically scattered into equal pieces. "Westwaerts", ::
:: which works as an intro, acquaints the listener to the ::
:: elder's tunes. Then, you fall upon a bastion of four ::
:: compositions willing to thrill you with their ::
:: war-provoking spirit and lyricism until you stumble upon ::
:: the beautiful acoustic interlude "Eichenhain". The album ::
:: keeps up with four more songs that, despite the fact that ::
:: they keep the dynamism of the first half, tend to embed ::
:: more melody and atmospheric brushstrokes. "Ausklang" ::
:: closes the curtain and leads the cycle to completion as ::
:: the outro of this tale. XIV Dark Centuries appear more ::
:: balanced than ever before in a solid effort that won't ::
:: disappoint their hordes. Melodic yet powerful, atmospheric ::
:: but without exaggerating, their latest effort is here to ::
:: open once again the gates to an older domain. ::
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:: Forged in fire and steel, but also nostalgic, Gizit Dar ::
:: Faida strikes in military formation. This is Thuringian ::
:: Metal in its most anthemic form which storms from the ::
:: glorious ancestral past to inflict its heathen aesthetic ::
:: on the present. ::
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