Released February 12, 2011 Language Hungarian Artist Dalriada Label AFM Records GmbH | Length 51:45 Ígéret
(2011) Napisten Hava
(2012) Release date 12 February 2011 Genre Folk metal | |
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Dalriada g ret full album
Ígéret is the seventh studio album of the Hungarian folk metal band Dalriada. This is their first album that includes a song not only in Hungarian, since "Leszek A Hold" has Finnish verses, sung by Jonne Järvelä of Korpiklaani. The album title means "promise" in Hungarian.
Contents
Style
Ígéret combines metal elements like male and female growling with clean song and Hungarian folk, featuring a power metal ballad, "Mennyei Harang" as well as contrapuntal solos. Strong vocal melodies have been observed throughout the album. Apart from influences of power metal, the album shows hints of thrash metal.
Reception
The album received favourable reviews from various webzines. Onemetal.com and the Austrian Stormbringer webzine lauded the successful combination of metal and folk and the songwriting on Ígéret. The latter remarked the diversity of the various tracks and singer Laura Binder's skill in clean vocals and growls. The German edition of Metal Hammer awarded five out of seven points to the album in a 2011 rating. The Metal Forces magazine was equally positive about Binder's clean vocals and noted that Dalriada did not use as much growling as other bands of the genre.
Ígéret was also a commercial success and peaked at position 6 in the Hungarian Mahasz official charts.
Track listing
The song "Igazi Tűz [True Fire]" is a tribute to former band member Péter Hende who died unexpectedly in 2001.
Personnel
Session/guest musicians:
Songs
1Intro
2Hajdútánc
3Hozd el - Isten