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
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