Pentachronist by Antyra
With their album debut "Pentachronist" ANTYRA rose to new power. This pretty sophisticated concept album, recorded with a renewed line up, is a collection of self-written short stories about the five elements fire, water, earth, air and spirit, which were set to music. Each song (respectively story) is introduced by a prologue with partly massive choirs or audio drama effects to get the listener prepared for the coming plot. This matching with ANTYRAs habitual variety from fantastic elegy by way of pretty fat grooves up to ice cold brute makes "Pentachronist" live as on CD an epic metal listening experience of a very special kind!
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"Anders als manche gewollt progressive Band aus dem extremen Sektor scheitern ANTYRA mit diesem Debütalbum nicht an ihren eigenen Ambitionen. Die Leipziger haben sich von vorne (Musik, orchestrale Arrangements mit mehrstimmigem Gesang) bis hinten (Digipack mit liebevoll gestaltetem Booklet) Mühe gegeben und ein Kurzgeschichten-Konzept umgesetzt, das zu keiner Sekunde schwülstig oder albern anmutet. Hier sollte dringend eines der ach so avantgardistischen Szene-Labels anklopfen, die ansonsten jedes Gerumpel als visionär bewerben." (Rock Hard Germany #345)
"The music tracks are all good to very good and take you on a wild ride, sometimes in English and mostly in German. Their very unique super Prog style, mixing '80 style rock with Death and Pagan Metal is really refreshing, but not a blend that we often heard so far. Just take Flammenflut in its Melodic Death Metal splendor. [...] I have seldom seen creative energy at work to that extent. Having the courage to concoct a piece of work of such exquisite and eclectic complexity, stringing together theatrical parts with metal and rock speaks for itself." (RockmusicRaider.com - 7 out of 10 points)
"...ein opulentes Epic Metal Album, welches keine Konkurrenz zu scheuen braucht." (www.metalunderground.at - 4,5 out of 5 points)
"...powerful music, played beyond of genres and borders." (Antichrist Magazin // www.deadcenter666.com/antichrist)
"PENTACHRONIST ist tight eingespielt und absolut sauber produziert. Häufige Breaks sorgen dafür, dass der Spannungsbogen in jedem Song aufrechterhalten wird. Fans von Epic und Pagan Metal sollten ANTYRA definitiv eine Chance geben. Wenn die gesanglichen Schwächen beim nächsten Mal ausbleiben, kann hier eine neue Genre-Hoffnung heranwachsen." (www.metal.de - 7 out of 10 points)
Tracklist
| 1. | Ouvertüre: Quintessenz | 2:31 |
| 2. | Prolog: Ignis | 0:41 |
| 3. | Flammenflut | 6:01 |
| 4. | Prolog: Terra | 4:20 |
| 5. | Von höchsten Sphären | 5:31 |
| 6. | Prolog: Aura | 1:24 |
| 7. | Antyra | 6:20 |
| 8. | Prolog: Agua | 2:31 |
| 9. | Hinab in den Maelström | 8:43 |
| 10. | Prolog: Spiritu | 0:57 |
| 11. | Mente Captus Es! | 9:01 |
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“Powerful music, played beyond of genres and borders” – that's how the metal press describes ANTYRA.
Overall, the band's style can be defined as “Epic Metal” – skillfully arranged songs that are dealing with fantasy stories, mythological and historical themes, put into metal music of rich variety that underlines the lyrical contents and combines Heavy, Power, Pagan, Melodic Death and Black Metal!