Haggard, together with Therion, are in fact regarded as pioneers in Symphonic Metal. Productionwise their albums get better as time progresses, I recommend "Eppur Si Muove" for a listen, way clearer in the mix!
@@Kraakesolv They certainly were among the first to do the "Beauty and the Beast" vocal style in a consistent way and not just as a gimmick. From the same time like the others too, mid to late 90's...
I hope you will do Awaking The Centuries at some point in the future. For me it's their magnum opus. Eppur Si Muove is also very good but feels more accessible and less adventurous.
I love Haggard and you nail a lot of the criticism on the technical side. The overall shifting and non-traditional composition or unfocused themes are what I like. They have better albums, I hope you'll get into these eventually.
I love this album, even if the production suffers. In a Pale Moons Shadow is one of my favourite songs from Haggard. Lost is probably my second favourite off this album.
A perfect example of why I keep saying 90s metal was just an incredible and in many ways irrepeatable explosion of creativity. Since this came on way back in 1997 we've had bands expanding on symphonic and neoclassical aspects and many of them are incredibly slick and polished. And very few of them can conjure an expression of sheer delight as this does on occasion. Even if it's occasionally very clunky, it benefits from it in many ways. There's such a feel of playing it by ear while completely disregarding norms and conventions, of something done in an era where none of the people doing it were quite sure they would have an actual audience for it, but they still nagged that friend they knew who played in the conservatory or something like that and somehow convinced them to go along into playing on an obscure metal album. ANd a lot of this is indeed manic energy. People playing around with high concept, but not quite knowing how to pull it off. Bands like Epica or Nightwish would eventually find a formula that is very much fit for mass consumption and sounds slick and professional and pretty impressive, provided you don't expect it to go very deep. And to situate you, 97 was a fantastically creative year. It brought us Emperor's second album which saw Ishan become established as a fenomenal composer and has dynamics that transcdend most of what you would consider black metal (while being very much black metal), you had Arcturus doing a Satanic Andrew Lloyd Webber album complete with chamber music and trip hop touches, In The Woods... going from Pagan black metal to proggy doom metal, Solefald doing a black metal album about philosophy that sounds lime they are openly mocking the genre from within, 3rd and The Mortal mixing jazz and metal Dead Can Dance. The precedents were already there, and folk, baroque and classical elements were already a fixture of many bands ut everyone was still very much doing theit own thing, guided by a mix of experimentation, youthful enthusiasm, and some isiot savantism, all elements that this album captures in spades. It sounds very dated by todays standards, but it also quite paradoxically sounds very out on a limb.
Excellent reaction, i think you will appreciate their other three albums (Awaking The Centuries, Eppur Si Muove, Tales of Ithiria) Also you have a reaction to Haggard ( Upon Fallen Autumn Leaves)
Please make a video about Royal Hunt's debut album - Land of broken hearts. Andre Andersen is a fantastic composer. Also I can suggest Rhapsody - Legendary tales album.
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Haggard, together with Therion, are in fact regarded as pioneers in Symphonic Metal. Productionwise their albums get better as time progresses, I recommend "Eppur Si Muove" for a listen, way clearer in the mix!
I would also recommend listening to Elend first 3 albums.
@@benjaminhouse4500 Elend are a wild byproduct of the 90s and it would be pretty interesting for Bryan to get to grips with them.
@@benjaminhouse4500Was thinking the same thing when he said it would be interesting with an entire folky/classical album!
Theatre of Tragedy as well, although not as symphonic they still were an inspiration to so many.
@@Kraakesolv They certainly were among the first to do the "Beauty and the Beast" vocal style in a consistent way and not just as a gimmick.
From the same time like the others too, mid to late 90's...
I hope you will do Awaking The Centuries at some point in the future. For me it's their magnum opus. Eppur Si Muove is also very good but feels more accessible and less adventurous.
You did do a reaction to haggard the song was upon fallen autumn leaves, love that you did this full album, very underrated album in my opinion
I love Haggard and you nail a lot of the criticism on the technical side. The overall shifting and non-traditional composition or unfocused themes are what I like. They have better albums, I hope you'll get into these eventually.
I love this album, even if the production suffers. In a Pale Moons Shadow is one of my favourite songs from Haggard. Lost is probably my second favourite off this album.
A perfect example of why I keep saying 90s metal was just an incredible and in many ways irrepeatable explosion of creativity.
Since this came on way back in 1997 we've had bands expanding on symphonic and neoclassical aspects and many of them are incredibly slick and polished. And very few of them can conjure an expression of sheer delight as this does on occasion. Even if it's occasionally very clunky, it benefits from it in many ways. There's such a feel of playing it by ear while completely disregarding norms and conventions, of something done in an era where none of the people doing it were quite sure they would have an actual audience for it, but they still nagged that friend they knew who played in the conservatory or something like that and somehow convinced them to go along into playing on an obscure metal album.
ANd a lot of this is indeed manic energy. People playing around with high concept, but not quite knowing how to pull it off. Bands like Epica or Nightwish would eventually find a formula that is very much fit for mass consumption and sounds slick and professional and pretty impressive, provided you don't expect it to go very deep.
And to situate you, 97 was a fantastically creative year. It brought us Emperor's second album which saw Ishan become established as a fenomenal composer and has dynamics that transcdend most of what you would consider black metal (while being very much black metal), you had Arcturus doing a Satanic Andrew Lloyd Webber album complete with chamber music and trip hop touches, In The Woods... going from Pagan black metal to proggy doom metal, Solefald doing a black metal album about philosophy that sounds lime they are openly mocking the genre from within, 3rd and The Mortal mixing jazz and metal Dead Can Dance. The precedents were already there, and folk, baroque and classical elements were already a fixture of many bands ut everyone was still very much doing theit own thing, guided by a mix of experimentation, youthful enthusiasm, and some isiot savantism, all elements that this album captures in spades. It sounds very dated by todays standards, but it also quite paradoxically sounds very out on a limb.
ToT, Velvet Darkness they Fear! Or was that 96?
Excellent reaction, i think you will appreciate their other three albums (Awaking The Centuries, Eppur Si Muove, Tales of Ithiria)
Also you have a reaction to Haggard ( Upon Fallen Autumn Leaves)
Одна из моих любимых групп.🤘🤘🤘 Было время слушал только их.
Please make a video about Royal Hunt's debut album - Land of broken hearts. Andre Andersen is a fantastic composer. Also I can suggest Rhapsody - Legendary tales album.
Best in the genre(s) also later albums are much better at mixing and stitching things together
Though not exactly your wheelhouse/genre, I would love the same deconstruction for another concept album - Dogma Resistance by RIOT