Released August 22, 2005 Artist Xandria Producer Jose Alvarez-Brill | Length 51:58 Release date 22 August 2005 Label Drakkar Entertainment | |
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Recorded Pleasurepark Studios, Belgium
December 2004 - June 2005 India
(2005) Salomé – The Seventh Veil
(2007) Genres Symphonic metal, Gothic metal Similar Kill the Sun, Salomé – The Seventh, Ravenheart, Now & Forever – Best of X, Neverworld's End | ||
India is the third studio album by German symphonic metal band Xandria. It was released on August 22, 2005 via Drakkar Entertainment label. The album also released one single, "In Love with the Darkness".
Contents
In comparison with its predecessor Ravenheart, the album presents a larger variety of musical ideas and a more powerful and dynamic sound, a clear progression for the band. The album features the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and several guest musicians: the Irish folk band Sceal Eile, musicians and the female singer of the band Lyriel and the Australian Grant Stevens.
The producer José Alvarez-Brill is the same of Ravenheart. The recordings took place with some interruptions used for further song writing and arranging from December 2004 to June 2005. The album was released on August 22, 2005 and reached #30 in the German album charts.
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Concept
Christopher Columbus wanted to reach the goal of finding a new sea route to India. He never discovered it, but something just as important—America. Just like he sailed westwards filled with his goal, we are striving for our goals in life, maybe even for our one and only goal. And often we find, like Columbus, something completely different on our way, something that is new, that becomes important to us. India stands for this one goal, as a symbol for what we are looking for and maybe do not find at all—but something completely different instead.
Marco Heubaum statement on the Xandria Official Site
Personnel
Songs
1India5:17
2Now & Forever3:21
3In Love With the Darkness3:50