Beneath the Veiled Embrace
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Beneath the Veiled Embrace is the first album by power metal
band Pythia
, released 12 October 2009. It was re-released on 23 February 2011 with alternative cover artwork and three bonus tracks.
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 Pythia
Pythia (band)
Pythia is a heavy metal band from London, England.Pythia is a group of classically and heavy-metal inspired musicians. Lead singer Emily Ovenden is also a member of the classical group the Mediaeval Baebes and Celtic Legend. Drummer Marc Dyos and guitarist Ross White are originally from the thrash...
, released 12 October 2009. It was re-released on 23 February 2011 with alternative cover artwork and three bonus tracks.
Track listing
All musics by Pythia, all lyrics by Emily Alice OvendenEmily Ovenden
Emily Alice Ovenden is an English singer and composer and a member of the number one selling UK Classical Chart act, the Mediæval Bæbes, selling over 500,000 albums worldwide. She has recently published a fiction novel called The Ice Room and is lead singer of both heavy metal band, Pythia and...
- "Sweet Cantation" - 3:54
- "Sarah (Bury Her)" - 4:31
- "Tristan" - 4:10
- "Ride for Glory" - 4:42
- "My Pale Prince" - 4:46
- "Eternal Darkness" - 5:01
- "What You Wish For" - 4:15
- "Oedipus" - 5:28
- "Army of the Damned" - 4:25
- "No Compromise" - 5:13
Japanese bonus tracks
- "Thunder Rising" (Gary MooreGary MooreRobert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....
cover) - 5:38 - "Sarah (Bury Her)" (acoustic version) - 4:44
- "Tristan" (acoustic version) - 4:27
Personnel
- Emily Alice OvendenEmily OvendenEmily Alice Ovenden is an English singer and composer and a member of the number one selling UK Classical Chart act, the Mediæval Bæbes, selling over 500,000 albums worldwide. She has recently published a fiction novel called The Ice Room and is lead singer of both heavy metal band, Pythia and...
- vocals - Ross White - guitars
- Tim Neale - lead guitar
- Andy Nixon-Corfield - bass
- Marc Dyos - drums
- Richard Holland - keyboards
Guest musicians
- Bev Lee Harling (Mediaeval Baebes) - violin on tracks 12 and 13.
- Brian BlessedBrian BlessedBrian Blessed is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals".-Early life:The son of William Blessed, a socialist miner, and Hilda Wall, Blessed was born in the town of Goldthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England...
- narration on track 9, reading the poem "Suicide in the TrenchesSuicide in the TrenchesSuicide in the Trenches is a poem by Siegfried Sassoon, written during his First World War military service and published in his 1918 collection: Counter-Attack and Other Poems.-The Poem:I knew a simple soldier boy........
" by Siegfried SassoonSiegfried SassoonSiegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...
.