The Ancient Returns

by Macabre Omen

The Ancient Returns cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 January 2005
  • Label: Blutreinheit Productions
  • Country: Greece
  • Length: 38:23
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

In development for nearly a decade, 'The Ancient Returns' stands as an atmospheric masterwork of the Hellenic black metal movement. The solo-helmed project blends triumphant, melodic pagan passages with raw heavy metal aggression. It captures a distinctly epic and culturally patriotic warmth rarely found in traditional northern black metal.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, melodic, pagan, patriotic

Tracklist

  1. In Memory... (5:37)
  2. A Call from Gods to God (6:24)
  3. An Ode to Rhode (5:51)
  4. The Perfect Sound of North vs. South (8:50)
  5. Hellas - Ode A (6:32)
  6. Hellas - Ode B (5:07)

Credits

  • Macabre Omen - primary artist, music by [all], lyrics by [all]
  • Claudio Alcara - acoustic guitar, soloist [solo]
  • Gionata Potenti - drums [battery], backing vocals
  • Alexandros Antoniou - vocals, backing vocals, guitar [guitars], bass, synthesizer [synths]
  • I - engineer [under the supervision of], photography by [all]
  • Niko Santaniello - engineer [engineered by]
  • Khal Drogo - photography by [corinthian helmet in snow]

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