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Slovo (album)

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Released
  
August 26, 2011

Language
  
Russian

Artist
  
Arkona

Label
  
Napalm Records

Length
  
57:24

Slovo (2011)
  
Yav (2014)

Release date
  
26 August 2011

Genres
  
Folk metal, Pagan metal

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Recorded
  
CDM-Records Studio, Moscow, Russia, November 2010 – April 2011

Producer
  
Masha "Scream", Sergei "Lazar" Atraschkevic

Similar
  
Arkona albums, Folk metal albums, Other albums

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Slovo (Russian: Слово, A Word) is the sixth full-length album by the Russian pagan metal band Arkona. It was released on August 26, 2011 through Napalm Records. An academical choir and a chamber orchestra were used on the album.

Contents

Reception

A review by the webzine Jukebox Metal called the album "imaginative and lively" but criticised a lack in musical consistency and identity. Metal Hammer Germany was more positive and lauded the evolution in the band's musical quality, writing that the songs were more complex and sophisticated than those on the previous studio album Goi, Rode, Goi!.

Track listing

All tracks written by Masha "Scream", except "Zimushka".

Arkona

  • Masha "Scream" – vocals, keyboards, tambourine, khomus, shaman drums, shaker, choirs, acoustic guitar on Bol’no mne, producing, engineering, mixing
  • Sergei "Lazar" Atrashkevich – lead guitar, acoustic guitars, balalaika, additional vocals on Arkaim and Nikogda, producing, engineering, mixing, mastering
  • Ruslan "Kniaz" – bass
  • Vlad "Artist" Lyovushkin Sokolov – drums and percussion, synthesizers
  • Vladimir "Volk" – gaita gallega, tin whistle, low whistle, sopilka, zhaleika, blockflute, hurdy-gurdy

    • Additional musicians

  • Chamber Orchestra of Kazan State Conservatory N.G. Zhiganov (under the direction of Darya Ivanova)
  • The choir of Moscow State Conservatory students (conducted by Alexandra Sidorova)
  • Meri Tadić (Eluveitie) – violin
  • Anna Kalinovskaya (Rodogost) – symbaly
  • Tatiana Narishkina, Dariana Antipova (Vedan’ Kolod’) – vocals on "Zimushka"
  • Ilya "Wolfenhirt" (Svarga), Aleksandr "Shmel" (Rarog) – choir on "Stenka na Stenku"
  • Aleksandr Oleynikov (Kalevala) – accordion on "Stenka na Stenku"
  • Ilya "Hurry" (Svarga) – accordion on "Leshiy"

    • Songs

    1Az’2:12
    2Arkaim5:53
    3Bol’no mne5:41

    References

    Slovo (album) Wikipedia
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