Even better is the 2nd CD, a conceptual work about some local medieval knight and his countless crimes. Overall not much has changed but many of those irritating breaks that made some songs of the first CD quite painful for me are gone now, the music is more flowing and so this is even better in my opinion ! A track like "Dragonslayer" is a classic of epic medieval Heavy Metal even though it's still hard to follow the vocal lines. But I couldn't really imagine any other vocals to this songs, as weird as it sometimes sounds, it fits the mood perfectly. By now I think some bigger label has picked them up, at least this CD is in every mail order catalogue by now. If you want something outstanding you should definitely check out EXCELSIS !! I just hope they won't have to compromise with their next CD...

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