Finisterra (album)
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Finisterra is a 2000 album by the Spanish folk metal
band Mägo de Oz
. It narrates the story of Satania, a fictional society in the future where life depends on the Internet and computers.
, under the name of "Batallón de la Cochambre", made a revolution called "la guerra del hambre" (the war of hunger). This made the world's dominant powers to use all their bacteriological and nuclear arsenals, causing the destruction of all animal and plant life, but not destroying all humanity. A selected group of corporative leaders, politicians and computer programmers, organized by the enigmatic figure of "elmaestro.com", created Satania, a world without violence, revolutions or the right of the people to think by themselves to create another option. Years passed in a world where reading was forbidden, sex was practiced in the "clean way" (virtually), oxygen was rationed, and society was slowly falling on itself. In Necropolis, the official capital of Satania, a group of "doubters" (people who were not conformed with digital life and with an automatic society) began the search of another way of life, based more on the spiritual ways, and running away from the advances that will lead to the destruction of the Earth. Bribing the biggest hacker in the zone, "alamierda.es", with oxygen credit cards and the most powerful hallucinating drug that ever existed (which is, a video of notable moments of a game show), they search in the hard drive of elmaestro.com for the reason why humanity reached that point.
They find a CD-Rom
that narrates the story of Diego Cortéz, a swordsman that protects an enigmatic pilgrim from Puente La Reina
to Santiago de Compostela
, known to be the pilgrimage of the Way of St. James
and they both make a long voyage of self-discovery. When they finally reach Santiago de Compostela the pilgrim kills Diego, after revealing he is Astaroth (the devil
). He then goes to the nearby church. To close the agreement, the devil leaves a CD-ROM with an inscription on it, "You are in Satania, this is the end of the road!".
Folk metal
Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...
band Mägo de Oz
Mägo de Oz
Mägo de Oz is a Spanish folk/heavy metal band from Begoña, Madrid formed in mid-1988 by drummer Txus di Fellatio. In 1992, the band were finalists in the Villa de Madrid contest. Then, they went onto achieve great success in Spain, and in 1995, were declared Revolution Rock Band...
. It narrates the story of Satania, a fictional society in the future where life depends on the Internet and computers.
Plot
In the year 2199, a new order, Satania, is ruling the world. This was caused in the beginning of the 21st century, when the Third WorldThird World
The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
, under the name of "Batallón de la Cochambre", made a revolution called "la guerra del hambre" (the war of hunger). This made the world's dominant powers to use all their bacteriological and nuclear arsenals, causing the destruction of all animal and plant life, but not destroying all humanity. A selected group of corporative leaders, politicians and computer programmers, organized by the enigmatic figure of "elmaestro.com", created Satania, a world without violence, revolutions or the right of the people to think by themselves to create another option. Years passed in a world where reading was forbidden, sex was practiced in the "clean way" (virtually), oxygen was rationed, and society was slowly falling on itself. In Necropolis, the official capital of Satania, a group of "doubters" (people who were not conformed with digital life and with an automatic society) began the search of another way of life, based more on the spiritual ways, and running away from the advances that will lead to the destruction of the Earth. Bribing the biggest hacker in the zone, "alamierda.es", with oxygen credit cards and the most powerful hallucinating drug that ever existed (which is, a video of notable moments of a game show), they search in the hard drive of elmaestro.com for the reason why humanity reached that point.
They find a CD-Rom
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
that narrates the story of Diego Cortéz, a swordsman that protects an enigmatic pilgrim from Puente La Reina
Puente La Reina
Puente La Reina is a town and municipality located in the autonomous community of Navarra, in northern Spain....
to Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James...
, known to be the pilgrimage of the Way of St. James
Way of St. James
The Way of St. James or St. James' Way is the pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the apostle Saint James are buried....
and they both make a long voyage of self-discovery. When they finally reach Santiago de Compostela the pilgrim kills Diego, after revealing he is Astaroth (the devil
Devil
The Devil is believed in many religions and cultures to be a powerful, supernatural entity that is the personification of evil and the enemy of God and humankind. The nature of the role varies greatly...
). He then goes to the nearby church. To close the agreement, the devil leaves a CD-ROM with an inscription on it, "You are in Satania, this is the end of the road!".
Disc one
- "Prólogo" (Prologue) - 1:59
- "Satania" (Satan's Domain) - 8:14
- "La Cruz de Santiago" (Santiago's Cross) - 5:19
- "La Danza del Fuego" (The Dance Of Fire) - 5:13
- "Hasta que el cuerpo aguante" (As much as the body can stand) - 4:32
- "El Señor de los Gramillos" (The Lord Of The Grams, instead of The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...
) - 4:59 - "Polla Dura no cree en Dios" (A Hard Cock doesn't believe in God) - 4:30
- "Maite Zaitut" ("I Love You" in BasqueBasque languageBasque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
-)(cover of Gwendal's "Deu tu Ganeme") - 3:20 - "Duerme... (Canción de cuna)" (Sleep...(Lullaby) (cover of "Scarborough FairScarborough Fair"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional ballad of the United Kingdom.The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she...
", popularized by Simon & Garfunkel) - 4:29 - "Es hora de marchar" (It's Time To Go) (cover of "Rainbow Eyes" by RainbowRainbow (band)Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...
) - 5:03
Disc two
- "Fiesta Pagana" (Pagan party) - 4:56
- "El que quiera entender, que entienda" (He who wants understand, may do so) - 7:27
- "Los renglones torcidos de Dios" (God's Twisted Lines) - 6:31
- "La dama del amanecer (kelpie)" (cover of "Kelpie" by Jethro TullJethro Tull (band)Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
) (The Lady of Dawn) - 4:50 - "Tres Tristes Tigres" (Three Sad Tigers) - 2:43
- "A Costa da Morte" (The Coast of death [in GalicianGalician languageGalician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
) - 3:34 - "La Santa Compaña" ("The Holy Company" in GalicianGalician languageGalician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
) - 5:34 - "Conxuro (da Queimada)" (Incantation) - 3:45
- "Astaroth" (Astaroth, [the name of a demon]) - 6:31
- "Finisterra" ("end-earth", Earth's End) - 15:16