Dawn of Victory [Import]

Dawn of Victory [Import]

Track Listings

1. Luc Triumphans

2. Dawn Of Victory

3. Triumph For My Magic Steel

4. The Village Of Dwarves

5. Dargor Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain

6. The Bloody Rage Of The Titans

7. Holy Thunderforce

8. Trolls In The Dark (Instrumental)

9. The Last Winged Unicorn

10. The Mighty Ride Of The Firelord

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The Italian progressive metal act's third album, originally released in 2000. Ten tracks including, 'Lux Triumphans', 'Triumph For My Magic Steel', 'The Village Of Dwarves' & 'Dargor, Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain'.

Dawn of Victory,Rhapsody,Lmp,Heavy Metal

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Rhapsody contiunes to dominate

sorry but i didnt purchase this product

Simply put this is Rhapsodys best album

Symphonic Speed Metal

Some of Rhapsody's best stuff!

Dawn of Victory
Rhapsody
Manufacturer: SPV
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Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Lux Triumphans
Dawn Of Victory
Triumph For My Magic Steel
Village Of Dwarves
Dargor, Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain
Bloody Rage Of The Titans
Holy Thunderforce
Trolls In The Dark [Instrumental]
Last Winged Unicorn
Mighty Ride Of The Firelord

Album Description

The Italian progressive metal act's third album, originally released in 2000. Ten tracks including, 'Lux Triumphans', 'Triumph For My Magic Steel', 'The Village Of Dwarves' & 'Dargor, Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain'.

Album Details

2000 Release from the Italian Symponic Metal Band Rhapsody. Features the First Single 'holy Thunderforce' and Nine More.

Customer Reviews:

Rhapsody contiunes to dominate .......2007-06-25

two words, BUY IT.

there is not one excuse not to put this cd in your collection, holy thuderforce is easily the best song on this cd. the whole cd is amazing as well. not one bad song. even the vocaless songs are awesome.

sorry but i didnt purchase this product.......2006-11-04

sorry but i didnt purchase this item, i canceled it because it was taking so long.

Simply put this is Rhapsodys best album.......2006-01-19

Contains some of my favorite Rhapsody songs including Triumph For My Magic Steel, Holy Thunderforce, and the awesome insturmental Trolls in The Dark. Also, The Village of the Dwarves is a fun medieval sounding track that you can DANCE too.
very enjoyable! Luca's guitar playing is top notch and the instumental sections are some of the best I've ever heard. The same guys for all the other members of Rhapsody. For those who have never heard this before or any Rhapsody C.D., I suggest you get this one right away. I guarantee you will not be disappointed!

Symphonic Speed Metal.......2002-03-16

I think this is even better than the first two albums. It is a little more straight forward, fast and aggressive. Huge choruses with fantastic energy and vocals. Music is top notch or even above top notch for the genre.

Be sure to visit lootandplunder.tripod.com if you are into this or other euro-speed power metal bands. It's a high quality site focusing on epic/power/heavy metal.

Matt The Pirate

Some of Rhapsody's best stuff!.......2002-03-14

If you like symphonic metal, and you have not heard of Rhapsody, what the hell are you waiting for? These guys are a great band, even though they do have their cheezy side (check out the band pictures with the guy in the little gnome-mask get-up). While their cheezy fantasy-ness is kinda funny, it does not distract at all from the music, which rocks. As with all of Rhapsody's stuff, the first track is an intro to the opening song of the album, which is a great track... Rhapsody's most catchy album opening song. It only gets better with the tracks Holy Thunderforce and Last Winging Unicorn, which I could listen to over and over.

Tracks:

The Longest Day
Attack On The Iron Coast
Band Of Brothers-Prelude
Band Of Brothers-Theme
Battle Of Britain
The Battle Of The Bulge
The Blue Max
Das Boot
The Bridge At Remagen
The Bridge On The River Kwai
A Bridge Too Far
The Caine Mutiny
The Captive Heart
Casablanca

Tracks:

Coastal Command
The Cruel Sea
The Dambusters
The Diary Of Anne Frank
The Eagle Has Landed
Empire Of The Sun
The English Patient
Fear And Desire
Force Ten From Navarone
Gallipoli
The Great Escape
The Guns Of Navarone

Tracks:

Hanover Street
The Hindenburg
In Harm's Way
Is Paris Burning?
King Rat
Lawrence Of Arabia
Lifeboat
Macarthur / Patton
Malta G.C.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Midway
The Mountain Road
1941

Tracks:

The Naked And The Dead
The Night Of The Generals
Paradise Road
Paths Of Glory
Pearl Harbor
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler'S List
Sergeant York
The Sharkfighters
Sink The Bismarck!
633 Squadron
Where Eagles Dare
The World At War
The Longest Day

Customer Reviews:

These are not the same arrangements as the original movie soundtracks.......2007-01-21

I was disappointed that these are not the same arrangements as the original movie soundtracks. For example, in Colonel Bogey, the countermarch from the movie soundtrack is not included in the arrangement on this CD. Don't get me wrong, the songs are good, but I would have preferred the same arrangements as the original movies.

An outstanding compilation.......2006-08-25

This compilation is superb and a real must-buy. From Band of Brothers to A Bridge Too Far: every war movie theme is represented here. An all time classic.

The really good ones are missing........2005-07-18

While this compilation has some masterpieces such as the theme from The Great Escape and Is Paris Burning, it's missing some of the finest tracts ever written. Where is the theme from Victory and Ernest Gold's stirring epic from Cross of Iron? The closing theme from Inchon was also a feast for the ears, but it's not here. It was written by Jerry Goldsmith, one of the foremost soundtrack composers of our time. Instead we're subjected to the likes of Hanover Street and The English Patient. I'll admit Inchon and Victory weren't Academy Award winning movies, but their soundtracks were second to none. As John Stossel would say," Give me a break"!!!

"many were winners by the Academy for best scores".......2004-05-26

Silva America presents the essential in film music during the period of World Wars ~ "Longest Day:Ultimate World War Movie Theme", featuring some long forgotten cues, 53 to be exact that sent chills and thrills into the pulses of world events ~ selections from a limited collectors edition that would make any "film-score-buff" green with envy.

Released to commemorate the sixth Anniversary of D-Day, never has there ever been such a tribute compilation package from any other label and Silva comes to the forefront ~ featuring The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Paul Bateman, Nic Raine Tony Bremner and Carl Davis as conductors), The Philharmonia (Kenneth Alwyn, Jerry Goldsmith, Mario Klemens and Paul Bateman as conductors) and also the world renown Crouch End Festival Chorus (David Temple as choir master) ~ what a gathering of talented musicians and singers fill this collection supreme.

The lineup of composers is a Who's Who in the world of film music ~ John Addison, Tomaso Albinoni, Kenneth J. Alford, Paul Anka, John Barry, Arnold Bax, Elmer Bernstein, Eric Coates, Carl Davis, Klaus Doldinger, Antonin Dvorak, Benjamin Frankel, Gerald Fried, Hugo Friedhofer, Jerry Goldsmith, Ron Goodwin, Bernard Herrmann, Maurice Jarre, Michael Kamen, Jerome Moross, Alfred Newman, Clifton Parker, Alan Rawsthorne, Ryvichi Sakamoto, Lalo Schifrin, Gerard Schurmann, David Shire, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Williams, Gabriel Yared and Hans Zimmer ~ set the stage for compositional human drama while exploring the deepest troves of musical emotion ~ one masterpiece after another, each cue manages to display both a convincing authenticity of the times and places ~ experience every tracks passion and skill for striking the exotic orchestral colors, explosive power and spectacular works of full large scale orchestral arrangements previal at every turn.

We are grateful to James Fitzpatrick (producer), Reybnold da Silva (executive producer), Rick Clark (associate producer/album sequence), Marion Garden (associate producer) and the whole gang at Silva America who have resurrected many of the soundtracks for the "film-score-buffs" in all of us.

Tracks:

Lux Triumphans
Dawn Of Victory
Triumph For My Magic Steel
The Village Of Dwarves
Dargor, Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain
The Bloody Rage Of The Titans
Holy Thunderforce
Trolls In The Dark (Instrumental)
The Last Winged Unicorn
The Mighty Ride Of The Firelord

Customer Reviews:

Symphonic Epic Power Metal. Just gets to 4 stars........2006-08-09

Where to begin. Rhapsody took their success to a new level with this release, part of an ongoingseries of albums that tell a story entitled the 'Emerald Sword Saga'. Armed with a pompous self importance more in keeping with Germanic and Scandinavian true metallers, Rhapsody bring to the table their quite obvious fire and passion for overwrought and histrionic metal and along with the quite different Lacuna Coil have opened the doors for a number of other Italian bands such as Ueickap, Wonderland, The Dogma, Biderben and Luca Turillis' (Rhapsody head honcho) solo output.

Putting aside the derision such a project inevitably incurs - they include a story synopsis and a map of the fictional land the story takes place in for heavens sake - there is plenty to like here. The band attack these tunes, the constant orchestral interludes are painfully intrusive in the best possible way and the band keep a straight face in the cover photos where they are holding swords. And that can't be easy! Yet this is not prissy hard rock but instead is a full bodied rock assault with wailing solos and decent vocals, Rhapsody seeing no reason to use a string section just for the ballads but instead hitting the listener with plenty of life and fire all the way through. Fans of simplistic, heads down 12 bar hard rock will hate this, but Rhapsody don't care as they play their melodic metal for the sort of audience who lap up songs with titles like Trolls in the Dark; Dargon, Shadowlord of the Black Mountain and The Mighty Ride of the Firelord.

Musically this is a confident, painfully Euro product. The band rarely shows restraint but doesn't deliver every song at double time instead realising that use of textures is necessary to get their story across. But when they do let go, it's all the better for the pacing of the other tunes. The fiery Holy Thunderforce and Dawn of Victory in particular are delivered with such missionary zeal you find yourself mouthing the quite ludicrous lyrics almost without realising it and that's a pretty cool effect to have on a listener!

If you like your metal committed, fiercely and well played and don't mind orchestral sections and choirs thrown in like so much confetti then check out Rhapsody for a band whose music, while epic in feel is also optimistic where many similar bands from more northern climes might come across as somewhat grim.

The Symphony is toned down, but great nonetheless.......2005-02-07

Following in the footsteps of Symphony of Enchanted Lands, the Italian power-metal outfit release the laudable Dawn of Victory. At first glance, it seems that Rhapsody wanted to make a live-friendly album, one that would not require as much production on tour. In other words, the songs are the most straightforward metal songs Rhapsody has written since "Flames of Revenge".

The symphony is less apparent, with the guitars being pushed to the forefront. Nevertheless, it is a very solid album with everything we have come to expect from their first two albums: hard-hitting power-metal with upbeat, medieval ballads. Changing the formula created in their first two albums, their opening track, "Lux Triumphans" sounds much like a unified song than an orchestral introduction. Both "Village of Dwarves" and "The Bloody Rage of the Titans" provide an appreciated change of tempo and style among typical power-metal lore. "Dwarves" is a song fit for merry Vikings around a fireplace, celebrating glorious times and "Titans" is a foreboding and tragic foot-stomp with an amazing violin-guitar riff that single-handedly propels this song to the lead of the album. No Rhapsody album is complete without a long epic, and "The Mighty Ride of the Firelord" delivers. The symphonic orchestration, songwriter Luca Turilli's shrieking guitars and an unexpected (but appreciated) reprise of "Lux Triumphans" make this song an instant classic, sure to ring in metalheads' ears for sagas to come.

Although Dawn of Victory does not have the same majestic thrust of its predecessor (in other words, no "Emerald Sword" or "Eternal Glory"), it is a commendable effort by a band who knows no rival. All hail the mighty warriors of metal!

See also: Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Rhapsody - Power of the Dragonflame, Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy

(4 1/2 stars) Great CD!.......2004-09-06

A great cd. Symphony of enchanted lands is better, so if you don't have that, buy it first.

I love how the first two tracks are joined toghter. It jumps from the end of track 1 straight to track 2. Lux Triumphans is a great song, but is even better as an intro piece to Dawn of victory. Buy it!

makes me want to live again.......2004-02-23

Rhapsody comes on like Spinal Tap, with their silly outfits and hyperbole. They're the worst band in the world, right until you push the play button. At that moment they become the best band ever. I know, I know, every music fan in the world thinks his own little momentary favorite is the best band ever. No, but seriously, Rhapsody makes the best popular music in the history of the human race so far. I don't even like much rock music, especially this diseased garbage the kids listen to nowadays. I'm a Sinatra and big band fan. But I've waited my whole life to hear a band like this. They restore hope. They represent everything holy and decent in the universe, and the willingness to take up arms to defend it. They not only respect the great tradition of European classical music, they have mastered it. Beethoven and Wagner and Bach and Tchaikovsky themselves couldn't write motifs more stirring, more noble, more beautiful. At the same time, Metallica couldn't match these guys in terms of raw power and speed and virtuosity. And these two styles of music are blended with such utter naturalness, it makes you wonder why we haven't been doing this all along. And the singer is a marvel, expressive, beautiful, unabashedly dramatic. Who cares if he has an Italian accent? Italy is the cradle of classical music, and he still speaks better English than any of those soul-destroying creatures called "rappers", who have no respect for heritage or any regard for anyone who does. Hail Rhapsody! They aren't just the best of the so-called "power metal" bands, they are a unique phenomenon in the history of pop music, a band that will be remembered for a hundred years after all the vile nonsense that tops the American charts has been wiped from time and memory. If you have one ounce of taste and don't buy every album they have made and listen to them, and nothing else, until you have memorized every note, you might as well go deaf, because you're wasting your ears.

(3.5 stars) Not as good as Power of Dragonflame.......2004-01-13

I absolutly had to pick this record up after purchasing Power of the Dragonflame (the bands 4th album). After a few listens to this one though I must say that even though I did enjoy it, it wasn't anywhere close to the near perfection of the later record. Dawn of Victory is Rhapsody's 3rd album and a good one too. There are 10 tracks on this one and I would say about 6 are worth listening to. The album starts off pretty weak with more of the bland dialogue that I disliked about the 4th album and the first 2 tracks were pretty good at best(the musicianship just wasn't as inspired as the 4th album). As soon as track 3 hit though I was blown away, what a wonderful melodic and enchanting piece of music! This is undoubtably the best off the album. The next few tracks aren't quite as good but still worth hearing because they are good songs. The "Trolls in the Dark" instrumental is one of the coolest power metal instrumentals I've heard in the genre, its fast guitar riffs and choir chorus easily take your imagination away from the riggers of daily life; unfortunately, like a lot of metal instrumentals from progressive bands, it's cut too short (a mere 2 and a half minutes). After this i felt that although track 9 was good, it dragged itself out towards the end and track 10 on top of being dragged out too long, wasn't a good song to begin with.
Overall, this is a good CD that rhapsody fans will enjoy but if you want to get into them or epic power metal as a whole I'd highly recommend the 4th album. This one's lacking some inspiration.

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Mussorgsky, Ibert and Dorumsgaard

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Great early 90's melodic hardrock!!

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Customer Reviews:

Great early 90's melodic hardrock!!.......2006-03-01

This along with Giant - "Time and burn", Harem Scarem - "Mood Swings" is an essential purchase for those of you who loves melodic rock as it was played in the late eighties and early nineties!

"Inside you" still gives me chills!

Buy!