Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn (2013)

Genre: Atmospheric/Epic Black/Folk Metal
Quality: MP3@128MBPS
About: Apologies for being away so long and thank you to all who continue to follow me! Here is the album we've all been waiting for, for seven years. Unfortunately the quality is not perfect, but what do you expect a full MONTH before release. I WILL be buying this on Vinyl. And I recommend you do the same.

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Pagan Reign - Discography (with correct English tags)

Genre: Pagan Folk Black Metal
About: Pagan Reign (Rus) is proof that good music is made in russia. This is just enthralling pagan metal. Similar to most other pagan metal, Ensiferum, Moonsorrow, etc, but with a unique touch. The first album sounds rather demo-ey and crude (though with good recording), but by the later albums they found a really great atmosphere for themselves... then broke up D:< ... Anyway, If you get this anywhere else it'll probably be weird non-existant characters like "Đŕäĺăŕńň" or Russian, so enjoy :)... With the exception of the EP is in Russian, I can't find the translations.



Pagan Reign (Rus) - Ancient Warriors - Full-length, 2001
(Re-uploaded in one part - 05/12/2012)
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Pagan Reign (Rus) - Otbleski Slavi I Vozrozhdenie Bilog Velichiya (Spark of Glory and Revival of Ancient Greatness) - Full-length, 2003
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Pagan Reign (Rus) - Ydeli Biloy Veri (The Fate Of The Old Faith) - Full-length, 2004
(Re-uploaded in one part - 05/12/2012)
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Pagan Reign (Rus) - Vo Vremena Bylin - EP, 2005
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Pagan Reign (Rus) - Tverd - Ancient Fortress - Full-length, 2006
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Raven Throne - Tenyu Skvoz' Smert' (2008) (Raventhrone (Blr)) (320 KBPS)

Genre: (Melodic) Black Metal, Pagan Metal
About: Very nice, fairly straightforward Black Metal with Melodic and Pagan influences. From Bulgaria. Very good Production Quality. If you like these genres you will like this.

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Summoning - Let mortal heroes sing Your Fame (2001) (320 kbps mp3)

Genre: Epic Black Metal, atmospheric black metal, Black Metal, Pagan Metal, Melodic Black Metal
About: This is the second most epic album of all time. It still has the same elements and epic feel of the previous album, stronghold, but they experiment a bit by adding things such as suicidal vocals in the chorus of track 2 and samples. It also has somewhat of a more melodic, folk feel.

Track 3 has this repeating spoken part "In the darkness... bind them!" and it fits so perfectly into the music

But my favorite song on the album is probably track 4. It explodes into this epic melodic powerful black riff that almost brings me to tears because it is so perfect.

DOWNLOAD IT NAOW!!!!!1111111

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Revolution Renaissance - Age Of Aquarius (2009) (Full Album)

Genre: power metal, melodic metal, symphonic metal, heavy metal, track 9: Folk Metal, Pagan Metal
About: The band line up alone should be enough to make you want this album:

Gus Monsanto - Vocals (Takara, Adagio (Fra), Overdose (Bra), Astra (Bra), Skyrion (Guest))
Timo Tolkki - Guitar (Stratovarius)
Justin Biggs - Bass (Descend (Swe), Dying Daylight)
Mike Khalilov - Keyboards (Empyreon, Forevers Edge)
Bruno Agra - Drums (Aquaria, Uirapuru)

But if not, just think of Stratovarius but with a more full, enveloping sound. This is a great debut album with this line-up. (Plus infinitely times better than that Saana crap. If you don't know what I'm referring to don't even look it up.) But the real gem of this album is the last track, "Into the Future", an uplifting melodic-folk-pagan masterpiece.

Sorry for the duplicate track, I may fix it later

Also...There seems to be multiple track listings, and since their official site does not have it, I'm using the most widespread one. Guessing metal-archives.com is wrong.

1. Age of Aquarius
2. Sins of My Beloved
3. Ixion’s Wheel
4. Behind The Mask
5. Ghost of Fallen Grace
6. Heart of All
7. So She Wears Black
8. Kyrie Eleison
9. Into The Future

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Summoning - Stronghold (1999) (320 kbps mp3)

Genre: Epic Symphonic Atmospheric Pagan Black Metal
About: It's rather fitting that for my 100th post I have the most epic band and album of all time. The band is heavily inspired by the POEMS of J.R.R Tolkien rather than his books (More specifically this album is based on tales of the Nibelungs, Rhein Gold, Siegfried and Brunhild).

Every song just has this epic feeling like you're riding on the back of a Flaming Minotaur through an infinite battlefield slaying trolls while you're being fired at from a Pirate ship in the middle of a typhoon. Also, they have the best logo ever. (EDIT- I stand corrected.) If your heart is currently beating (or even if it's not) you NEED to hear this album.

More detailed reviews here

(For those wondering, the singer in track 5 is Tania Borsky, Richard Lederer's ex-girlfriend who sings for the band "Die Verbannten Kinder Evas"... that band is not metal but it has a similar epic atmosphere)

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Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky EP (2008)

Genre: folk metal, viking metal, pagan metal, black metal
About: Quite possibly the most epic EP of all time. Starts off with the epic and varied self-titled song, weighing in at almost 30 minutes, then two re-recordings of old songs, and two covers, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica cover), Back to North (Merciless cover).

This EP sees a set of visitors in form of actor Turkka Mastomäki, Olav Eira
(Áigi), Tomi Koivusaari (Amorphis), Oppu Laine (Mannhai) and Janne Perttilä
(Rytmihäiriö/Moonsorrow), all of whom contributed vocals.

From Finland, of course.

LINK REMOVED DUE TO COMPLAINT (This is why I mostly post underground stuff and my blog has so few followers) I have my own views about music sharing... I will leave it for another day. In essence, I would never be a fan of an awesome band such as Moonsorrow if it wasn't for it. If i really feel an artist deserved my hard earned money, I will do so. (Such as, i have purchased every Metallica and Rhapsody of Fire album on CD) If not, i should at least be able to hear it! Eh... not quite what i wanted to say but oh well.

However, you should definitely check this album out elsewhere.
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