Year : 2013
Style : Folk Power Metal
Country : Switzerland
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 168 mb
Bio:
These guys from Switzerland, known as Excelsis, have been playing their very own brand of Metal since 1992. Back then it was a fine blend of Power and Folk Metal. Following some very positive feedback and great demand, the guys recorded their first album “Anduin in the River” in 1996, which also counts as the official founding year of Excelsis. Even at a time when Folk Metal was still in its infancy Excelsis started using non-typical metal instruments, such as bagpipes,flutes and didgeridoos. Their success at home as well as abroad led the band to continue on their path and release their second album “Kurt of Koppigen” in 1998. It was the band’s intent to release an album based on local history and legend. For the first time, lyrics in Swiss German were incorporated into their songs. Many Maurer, former member of Krokus, exceptional musician and owner of a recording studio, helped the band with their first two albums and made sure the sound had the required power. The success of the sophomore album was even bigger than for their debut. With their worldwide distribution deal with Shark Records, good reviews from Argentina to Japan kept flooding in. The song “Dragonslayer” also impressed the jury of the Rock Hard Contest and allowed the band to include the song on Iron Savior’s album “Unification”. “The Swiss Dragonslayers” was a name that popped up in several press clippings and has stuck with the band ever since. To this day, the guys wear it with pride. In 2001, the album “Tales of Tell” about the Swiss national hero William Tell was released. It was self-produced by the band from start to finish. Due to the low budget approach and the lack of a distribution deal, its success was limited. Nonetheless, quite a number of songs remain live staples to this day. Motivated by their live success, the band continued to work on new songs and thus released “The Legacy of Sempach” in 2005. The typical Excelsis Folk Metal was further developed without losing touch with their roots. The resulting new album tells the story of another heroic event in Swiss history. Aurora Records released the album. Finally the band could also play several larger gigs at home and abroad, amongst them two appearances at Metalcamp Open Air (Slovenia) End of Dayz Festival (CH), Metal Dayz (CH), Eternity of Rock Open Air and Night of the Cross Festival (both in Italy), as well as Rocktown Open Air and Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg in Germany. They shared stages with Accept,In Extremo, Schandmaul, Haggard, Rage, Subway to Sally, Skyclad, Gurd, Dornenreich, Wintersun, Annihilator, Iron Savior, Pertness, Hammerfall … just to name a few.Having searched archives of Swiss history, the band developed a keen interest in Swiss mercenaries. Using these stories, they produced the album “Standing Stone” which was released in 2008. Helvetic heroics combined with Folk Metal sounds set a new high point in the band’s career. Thanks to their good relationship with the successful Swiss band “Eluveitie”, they could convince Chrigel Glanzmann to appear as guest musician on the album. Non Stop Music released the album in Switzerland while Twilight Records obtained the distribution deal for the rest of the world. At the time several concerts were played with bands such as Eluveitie, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Black Messiah, Finsterforst, Samael, Heidefolk, Sepultura, Schandmal, Blackguard, Vreid and others at such festivals as Fiesta Pagana, Eluveitie & Friends, Forefathers Festival, Viking/Pagan Festival and others. Simply because the band wanted to try something different they released the self produced acoustic EP “E cly angeri Lieder” in 2010. The album, which was once again distributed by Non Stop Music, proved a success, which took the band by surprise. With the continued success of Folk and Pagan Metal worldwide the band decided to stick to their guns and continue on the path they set off on in 1996. The band’s brand new album received a professional production by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios (Necrophagist, Finsterforst, Unlight, etc.) and moves the sound to the next level with its unbelievable brutality. Once again the band successfully combined a story by Jeremias Gotthelf with their very own brand of metal. Thundering drums and ear splitting guitar riffs are complimented with more traditional nstruments. The brutal singing, or as Christoph Brandes described it “wild men with axes over their heads, running down the hills intent to split some heads”, with a number of passages in Bernese Swiss German, takes one inevitably back to the times of warriors and dragons.Get ready for future live battles with the new album and pay the band their dues they deserve.The “Emmentaler Dragonslayers” are back … more than ever before!
Tracklist:
01. Prologue (of Sintram & Bertram) 01:53
02. Brothers of War 05:52
03. Druids 04:48
04. Heathen Princess 05:27
05. The Fear 00:56
06. Uechtland 04:23
07. Chrieger 08:56
08. Dragonhole 05:37
09. The Avenger 05:03
10. The Fall of the One 05:21
11. The Chapel 05:18
12. Wissi Bärge 05:31
13. Epilogue 02:31
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