LINE-UP
Luca Turilli - guitars
Alex Staropoli - keyboards
Fabio Lione - vocals
Daniele Carbonera - drums
TRACKLIST:
Ira Tenax
Warrior Of Ice
Rage Of The Winter
Forest Of Unicorns
Flames Of Revenge
Virgin Skies
Land Of Immortals
Echoes Of Tragedy
Lord Of The Thunder
Legendary Tales
REVIEW:
One of the best debut-albums of all time. Simply amazing! Thereīs not a bad track on the entire album and the addition of new vocalist Fabio Lione is very helpful His passionate vocals fits very well with the music and the story in the lyrics. Too bad he wasnīt a member in the group when RHAPSODY recorded their demo "Eternal Glory". Another important addition to make this listening experience a great one, is the production. Produced by Sascha Paeth and Miro, and those guys really made a marvellous job on this album. Itīs almost impossible to pinpoint any particular favourites, but "Flames Of Revenge" and "Land Of Immortals" has to be mentioned. I could have mentioned any other tracks as well, because they all sound simply great.
Rate out of 10: ********** (10)
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| "Legendary Tales" as a promo edition in single cardboard cover. The backcover has the additional text "Not for sale - For promotional use only" written along the left edge. Also included is a special 8-page biography booklet in black and white (front and backcover in colour). Written in German and English. | ||
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This special edition of the "Legendary Tales"-cd was released
in 2000, to coincide with the European tour. It was never commercially
released in the stores, but was sold exclusively at the concerts and
through the fanclub. It comes in a foldout (gate-fold) cardboard cover and
also contains a small sheet of stickers. Limited to 2000 copies.
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| The Japanese version of "Legendary Tales" has the same tracks as the other editions. No extratracks which often is the case when it comes to Japan editions. It does however have an "obi" (the paperband on the left on the cover) and the full colour booklet has 32 pages - including 12 in Japanese. | ||
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| The three (3) pictures above shows the combined release of "Legendary Tales" and the "Holy Thunderforce"-single. Iīm not sure what this release is though. Itīs too professional-looking to be a bootleg with itīs full colour booklet and picture CD. On the other hand, no real record label is stated (only something called the "AGAT Company") and no matrix / record number is printed anywhere. Some sources state that this is the ofiicial Russian release, but I honestly donīt know. Probably some semi-official release. It looks great though and is well worth tracking down. | ||
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This is a strange release from something called "Monsters of rock". An illegal release probably, but a very well made one. 12-page full color booklet with full lyrics. Also full color picture disc. As you can see from the scan of the back cover to the left the design of the text (letters) are different, and this is the same throughout the booklet. The front is only slightly different with the title written to the left in the clear jewel case. This is not the case with other releases. The CD is basically the same and therefor I didnīt include a scan of it. |
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This 12" vinyl picure disc LP was released in 2000. It comes in a
black die-cut cover, includes a full colour poster of the cover art and is
limited to 1000 copies. All tracks on this are remastered for better
sound.
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