Magic Spellcraft
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Magic Spellcraft is the second Artefact
album, recorded at Finnvox studio in 2005. It was released by Rupture Music on May 18, 2006. In this second opus, created and recorded when coming back from Wacken Open Air
Festival, where they won third prize during a Wacken Battle, Artefact shows a powerful maturity: guitar epics, medieval paintings, deep shrieking vocals
as well as choir
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Artefact (band)
Artefact was a black metal band from Nice, France. According to the band itself, its name is taken from the medieval fantasy universe, and evokes a magical item....
album, recorded at Finnvox studio in 2005. It was released by Rupture Music on May 18, 2006. In this second opus, created and recorded when coming back from Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...
Festival, where they won third prize during a Wacken Battle, Artefact shows a powerful maturity: guitar epics, medieval paintings, deep shrieking vocals
Screaming (music)
Screaming is a vocal technique that is most popular in subgenres of heavy metal, punk and hard rock, including metalcore, deathcore, post-hardcore, groove metal, black metal, and grindcore...
as well as choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
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Track listing
- "Magic Spellcraft" − 6:03
- "Neolithic Era" − 10:28
- "Blizzard Dwarf Army" − 10:06
- "Mount Doom" − 4:54
- "Altar of Nocturnal Forest" − 3:24
- "Castle (The Underground Galleries)" − 6:26
- "High Landscape Travel" − 4:07
- "Hyperion" − 6:36
- "Eerie Anthem" − 2:41
- "Untitled Track" (remade songs from the The Legend of Zelda video games by Koji KondoKoji Kondois a Japanese video game composer and sound director who has been employed at Nintendo since 1984. He is best known for scoring numerous titles in the Mario and The Legend of Zelda series.-Early life:...
) − 6:05 (part 1: the first part of The Legend of Zelda theme (moves into part of Ganondorf's theme with haunting keyboards) and after this repeats some part of a song twice, part 2: a Zelda song from Super Smash Bros. MeleeSuper Smash Bros. MeleeSuper Smash Bros. Melee, known in Japan as , often abbreviated as SSBM or simply as Melee, is a crossover fighting game released for the Nintendo GameCube shortly after its launch in . It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 game Super Smash Bros., and the predecessor to the Wii game Super Smash...
specifically the "Temple" stage and again repeats the same song from part 1 twice, part 3: someplace after the song from SSBM it may be a song from A Link to the Past, part 4: the second part of the theme to The Legend of Zelda)
Credits
- Runenlyd – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Aldebaran – guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
, keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Alucard – guitar
- Ranko – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Alexis – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Metalex − front cover artworkAlbum coverAn album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...