Eunomia is a Power Metal quintet from Norway formed in 2011. The band first released an EP called “Crystal Sword” back in 2013 and started working on their debut full length record in 2016. Now, the record is finally out, and is titled “The Chronicles of Eunomia Part 1”. And yes, it’s a concept album. It’s almost like a textbook power metal concept album, you know, a warrior trying to regain his glory against the dark lord with the use of a mystical/mythical sword hidden somewhere…
While Marco Polo: The Metal Soundtrack lacks in many ways (especially compared to its direct predecessor) it is absolutely a worthy addition to the Symphonity discography. It shows Křivák’s ability to adapt, and it showcases the band’s evolution phenomenally, and a few songs belong in every power metal fan’s playlists…
Benjamin Bagby has spent his career as a scholar and performer immersed in the Medieval culture of western and northern Europe. The result has been numerous programs, recordings, performances, and publications, many of them with Sequentia, the outstanding ensemble he founded with his late wife, Barbara Thornton, in 1977. In this collection, Fragments for the End of Time 9th-11th Centuries, singer and harpist Bagby and flutist and harpist Norbert Rodenkirchen sing and play an assortment of apocalyptic fragments from Frankish, Bavarian, Alsatian, Saxon, and Aquitainian sources.