Description

Awaking The Gods: Live In Mexico is the first live recording by the German symphonic metal band Haggard. It was recorded and filmed at Teatro Ferrocarrilero, Mexico City during the tour for the Awaking The Centuries album. The dvd also contains footage from Teotihuacan between the songs. The album/dvd received a very positive review by the German Sonic Seducer magazine, calling it a unique fusion of Medieval, Baroque and Classical music with traditional metal. The musical skills of the band members were also stressed out in this review. Rock Hard noted the balanced recording and wrote that the album had authentically caught the concert’s atmosphere. This live album shows how unique this band is. One would think that their merry band of classical instruments would be drowned out in a live performance, but, my brothers, that is not the case! Everything is heard perfectly, and it really and truly sounds fantastic. There were a few tracks on Thou Shall Trust The Seer and Awakening The Centuries that weren’t that great. Awakening The Gods combines these two albums, leaves out the tracks that aren’t good, and adds the live intensity of the band to the songs. All instruments on this album are played well, nothing over powers anything else. The sound quality is amazing, the only downside is that there is not that much audience participation, at times this does sound like a studio album, a little to polished. Otherwise this is a great live recording worth to buy.

Track list:
1. Intro- Rachmaninov Choir
2. Mediaeval Part
3. Lost
4. Prophecy Fullfilled- And The Dark Night Entered
5. Menuett
6. Origin Of A Chrystal Soul
7. Awakening The Centuries
8. Courante
9. In A Full Moon Procession
10. Final Victory
11. In A Pale Moon’s Shadow
12. Requiem