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│ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Oct-19-2013 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Metal Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........1997 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........11 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.excelsis.ch ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Excelsis Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Anduin the River Label : n/a ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ "Helvetic folk power metal" indeed! Excelsis are ║ │
│║ one of the few, proud bands that depart from the ║ │
│║ double-bass neoclassical inanity of other Euro ║ │
│║ fantasy-metal bands and carve out their own ║ │
│║ sound. While this album, their first, isn't the ║ │
│║ most impressive effort of theirs, it shows a ║ │
│║ promising band in the making. ║ │
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│║ Excelsis doesn't sound like most other Euro ║ │
│║ power metal bands; you won't find any gratuitous ║ │
│║ neoclassical shredding or a layer of keyboards ║ │
│║ so thick you could only cut it with a chainsaw. ║ │
│║ While none of the musicians are technically ║ │
│║ outstanding by themselves and Munggu's vocal ║ │
│║ style is an acquired taste if there ever was one ║ │
│║ (his vocals are a bit like a cross of early ║ │
│║ Blind Guardian and later Grave Digger, with a ║ │
│║ thick Swiss accent that somehow suits the music ║ │
│║ very well), but somehow the band brings ║ │
│║ everything together and puts out an album of ║ │
│║ good, catchy songs that never forget that ║ │
│║ they're METAL songs. ║ │
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│║ However, you can tell this is a debut album. ║ │
│║ The songs don't have that special punch that ║ │
│║ Excelsis captured on later efforts, and while ║ │
│║ the album has several good tracks it just ║ │
│║ doesn't have any classics like "Dragonslayer" or ║ │
│║ "Last Episode" from the band's later offerings. ║ │
│║ The album is very consistent in the respect that ║ │
│║ there's no complete stinkers on it, but at the ║ │
│║ same time, it doesn't have any tracks that jump ║ │
│║ out and grab you by the balls. ║ │
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│║ Excelsis would go on to improve in almost every ║ │
│║ area on later efforts, but this is still a ║ │
│║ pretty cool album for Excelsis fans. ║ │
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│║ Standout Tracks: Maiden in the Forbidden ║ │
│║ Garden, In The Highlands, Beneath the Hills, ║ │
│║ Houses of the Healing ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - Intro [01:33] │
│ 02 - Houses of Healing [07:10] │
│ 03 - Beneath the Hills [06:05] │
│ 04 - Princess of the Trees [03:37] │
│ 05 - Anduin the River [06:12] │
│ 06 - Maiden in Forbidden Garden [08:03] │
│ 07 - Mordor Speaks [06:58] │
│ 08 - In the Highlands [06:08] │
│ 09 - Gwaihir - The Name of a Bird [06:12] │
│ 10 - Back into the Deepest Night [09:48] │
│ 11 - Outro [02:15] │
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│ Total Length : [64:01 minn │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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