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Back in 2013 life was hard, for quite a variety of reasons. A cousin of mine had introduced me to the band Cruxshadows. I was listening to their discography as much as I could.
Came across a reference to this particular song on an old blog and thought I’d share. What better way than a Music Monday post. This is the acoustic version. You can search out the regular version on Youtube if you so desire, but this is just so much smoother.
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Nice song! Good vocals and violin sound!
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This group is pretty talented. I just wish they had done more of this classic style instead of their more percussion oriented style.
Of course, I haven’t listened to them since then, so I don’t know what they’ve done recently, if anything.
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I also like symphonic rock and added this one to my playlist. My top favorite group is the German band Lacrimosa (my wife hates it, so I can only play either with headphones or when she isn’t around). Their music has a little Gothic, sometimes Wagnerian feel. About half of their lyrics are in German. Here you have a sample of their album Stille (which means silence in German) an English song called “Not every pain hurts”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OS7iEdYTPM
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I did not realize “symphonic rock” was the term for this kind of thing. Learning something new every day I guess 😀
Thanks for the link…
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In this genre, my wife is adamant that Frank Zappa was the greatest. I find his music a little difficult to access. It was mostly instrumental music, performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra.
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Gonna have a look at this band tomorrow, just listened to the intro of Stille and it gives me Summoning vibes. Thanks for sharing
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Very Arthurian; I can see myself listening to this while reading some epic fantasy. Do you actually listen to music while reading? I feel like I might have read somewhere that you prefer complete silence for reading.
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I will very occasionally listen to non-vocal music while reading (enya, amethystium, george winston) but overall, I do prefer silence. Much easier to focus…
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Good one, and I also prefer the acoustic version, I listened to both, and added the acoustic one to my fantasy playlist 🙂 thx!
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You’re welcome. What is your fantasy playlist?
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I mostly listen to music on Spotify, and I organized my favourites into a few thematic playlists (and one “mega list” for all kinds of songs)… on the “fantasy” one there’s all kinds of stuff, Krauka, Faun, Wardruna, Stravinski, Grieg, music from Witcher games…
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I love this song! I came across it in a John Ringo book, and it’s part of my playlist that I listen to while cooking 🙂
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I’m sure Mrs J appreciates the cooking 😀
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Stooge shares a musical Monday? And features an actual really nice song? A song featuring knights and pretty pictures to look at while the song tugs at the heartstrings? What whitchery is this? I smell HERESy!
Naaah mate just joking. Its a good song. Makes me think of Blind Guardian, but gone acoustic. The parts where the guy sings he is Winterborn you can really feel the loneliness in hos voice.
I hope there will be more of these musical posts man. Enjoyed this one more than what my brain tried to rebel against it.
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I wouldn’t count on too many more of these. Me and music have an understanding. I listen to what I like and the rest of it leaves me alone 😀
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Listened to the techno version, never heard of this before… cant say its my cuppa, but its not bad
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Great song! Will definitely add these to my playlist. Thanks for sharing!
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mark as spam…
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