Ancestral Romance
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Ancestral Romance is the eighth full-length album
by the Spanish power metal
band Dark Moor
, released on 24 November 2010.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by the Spanish power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
band Dark Moor
Dark Moor
Dark Moor is a Spanish power metal band from Madrid. Formed in 1993, they produced three full-length albums before undergoing a line-up change in which three members left the band to form their own project, Dreamaker...
, released on 24 November 2010.
Track listing
- "Gadir" - 4:59
- "Love From the Stone" - 4:02
- "Alaric de Marnac" - 4:42
- "Mio Cid" - 6:39
- "Just Rock" - 2:35
- "Tilt at Windmills" - 5:19
- "Canción del Pirata" - 5:39
- "Ritual Fire Dance" - 3:58
- "Ah! Wretched Me" - 4:59
- "A Music in my Soul" - 7:31
Concepts
- "Canción del Pirata" means "Song of the Pirate" in Spanish and is based in a poem written by José de EsproncedaJosé de EsproncedaJosé Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado was a famous Romantic Spanish poet.-Life:Espronceda was born in Almendralejo, at the Province of Badajoz. As a youth, he studied at the Colegio San Mateo at Madrid, having as teacher Alberto Lista...
. - "Ah! Wretched Me " is based on the "Life is a Dream" by Calderon de la Barca
- "Tilt at Windmills" is based on Don Quixote de La Mancha
- "Mio Cid " is inspired by the legend of the Spanish hero El CidEl CidRodrigo Díaz de Vivar , known as El Cid Campeador , was a Castilian nobleman, military leader, and diplomat...
, - "Alaric de Marnac" is an adaptation of Paul Naschy's latest book of the same title
- "Love from Stone" tells of the legend of the lovers of Teruel
- "Gadir" is inspired by the first city founded in Europe: CádizCádizCadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....
- "Ritual Fire Dance"is based on "Danza Ritual del Fuego" by Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer