Author: Mago de Oz
Genre : Celtic Hard Rock
Album: "La Leyenda de la
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Locomotive Records 1998

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Yes, I know this isnīt a recent album(Itīs not even their latest release) but I just had it for 2 weeks I canīt leave it without review it, because Itīs just a tremendous record. This is, like the new album("Finisterra"), a concept album, who tell us about the famous story of the spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes called "Don Quijote de La Mancha". If you didnīt read the mentioned book you will have problems to understand the story,but you could just enjoy the music which is amazing. The initial track is an intro called "En un lugar...", followed by "El santo Grial"(a clasic power metal song with some celtic music influence), then the song that gives the title of the album("La Leyenda de la Mancha"), followed by "Noche Toledana", another intro for the next song called "Molinos de Viento"(great song!!!). The whole album is just one big story about the hopes,dreams and thoughts of one man. You could find a lot of musical styles in this album (but donīt worry everything is between heavy metal and hard rock), for example "Maritormes" is a clasic hard rock song and "El balsamo de Fierabrás" is a clasic AC/DC tune with some celtic influence. You must know that thereīs one single called "Feliz navidad cabrones", and it contains "Molinos de Viento" and "Maritormes" in acoustic versions(very well done). I must say that this is a great album of a great Celtic-Hard Rock band and you must have it in your collection. Well, I hope I could have the last record of this guys soon (a 2 Cd set in digipack), cause I heard is even better than "La leyenda de Mancha", and thatīs hard to believe.

Score: 9/10

Review by Bossk