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Awaking the Centuries

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Released
  
2000

Length
  
37:39

Release date
  
7 February 2000

Studio
  
Roth Recording

Artist
  
Haggard

Label
  
Drakkar Entertainment

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Recorded
  
September–December 1999

Awaking the Centuries (2000)
  
Awaking the Gods Live in Mexico (2001)

Genres
  
Symphonic metal, Classical music, Doom metal, Early music

Similar
  
Haggard albums, Symphonic metal albums

Haggard pestilencia


Awaking the Centuries is the second full-length album by German symphonic metal band Haggard. It was released on February 7, 2000 by Drakkar Entertainment. The album is based on Michel De Nostredame (Nostradamus) and his experience during The Black Plague in Medieval Europe. The album features several compositions based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's music.

Contents

Awakening the Centuries peaked at position 64 in the German album charts.

Haggard awaking the centuries


Track listing

Note

  • The choir tracks at the beginning and at the end of the record are an abridged and a complete version of "Rejoice, o virgin" from Sergei Rachmaninoff's choral work All-Night Vigil.

    • Personnel

  • Asis Nasseri – grunt vocals, guitars, kettle drums
  • Luz Marsen – drums, percussion
  • Andi Nad – bass
  • Danny Klupp – guitars
  • Karin Bodenmüller – soprano
  • Hans Wolf – grand piano, piano, church organ keyboards
  • Kathrin Pechlof – concert harp
  • Fiffi Fuhrmann – tenore
  • Christian – tenore
  • Thomas Rosato – bass
  • Christoph Zastrow – flute
  • Florian Bartl – oboe
  • Robert Müller – clarinet
  • Andrea Sterr – violin
  • Michael Stapf – violin
  • Steffi Hertz – viola
  • Kathrin Hertz – violoncello
  • Georg Uttenthaler – doublebass
  • Florian Schnellinger – percussion
  • Peter Prysch – French horn

    • Guest musicians

  • Evert Fratermann – orchestral percussion
  • Ilka Mende – violin
  • Fabian Schwarz – acoustic guitars

    • Voices of "Pestilencia"

  • Ulrich Mühlmann – "Nostradamus"
  • Carsten Jacob – "Monk"
  • Christiane B.Horn – "Woman 1"
  • Eveline Gerhardt – "Woman 2"
  • Wolfgang Weißmüller – "Man"

    • Moscow Radio Choir

  • Elena Rastvorova – conductor
  • Olga Uschakova – soprano
  • Maria Kutuzova – soprano
  • Ekaterina Oblesova – alto
  • Katja Prasolova – alto
  • Vladimir Tarasov – tenor
  • Oleg Kuzmin – tenor
  • Anton Vasiljev – bass
  • Evgeny Astafurov – bass

    • Songs

    1Rachmaninov: Choir0:38
    2Pestilencia1:54
    3Heavenly Damnation2:59

    References

    Awaking the Centuries Wikipedia
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