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Track List
01) The Destroyer
02) The Wizard's Vengeance
03) The Golden Bell
04) The Confrontation
05) R.A.R.Z.
06) Against the Gods
07) The Iron Horse
08) From the Fjords
01) The Destroyer
02) The Wizard's Vengeance
03) The Golden Bell
04) The Confrontation
05) R.A.R.Z.
06) Against the Gods
07) The Iron Horse
08) From the Fjords
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3:39
7:14
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3:47
6:32
8:14
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First Released
1979
Heavy Metal
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Releasing an epic heavy metal album (partially) that also used vikings as a major theme, Legend were much, much ahead of their time. Epic metal masters Manilla Road were in their infancy, not yet having released their first full-length, and Manowar didn't even exist as a band yet. Metal wouldn't really take off as an entire genre until the following year, yet here in 1979 we have a set of mature tunes in a subgenre that didn't even exist yet. When speaking of the 4 relevant tunes here (which I'll be mostly referring to throughout this review when I talk about "the album"), there really wasn't anything like it out here at all at the time. Rush come the closest as far as I'm aware, with 1976's 2112 being epic in scope (for the most part) and fairly heavy; not consistently metal yet crossing over that line frequently, as this album does. The two aren't really terribly similar, though, just the closest things to each other as of From the Fjords' release. Vocalist Kevin Nugent doesn't really sound anything like Geddy Lee, and the songwriting is different enough, at least, that I wouldn't think of Rush when listening to the album unless I was specifically trying to pick out possible influences. Sure, there may have been some Rush influence, and it may resemble them here and there, but it's by no means worship or even overtly similar.
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Releasing an epic heavy metal album (partially) that also used vikings as a major theme, Legend were much, much ahead of their time. Epic metal masters Manilla Road were in their infancy, not yet having released their first full-length, and Manowar didn't even exist as a band yet. Metal wouldn't really take off as an entire genre until the following year, yet here in 1979 we have a set of mature tunes in a subgenre that didn't even exist yet. When speaking of the 4 relevant tunes here (which I'll be mostly referring to throughout this review when I talk about "the album"), there really wasn't anything like it out here at all at the time. Rush come the closest as far as I'm aware, with 1976's 2112 being epic in scope (for the most part) and fairly heavy; not consistently metal yet crossing over that line frequently, as this album does. The two aren't really terribly similar, though, just the closest things to each other as of From the Fjords' release. Vocalist Kevin Nugent doesn't really sound anything like Geddy Lee, and the songwriting is different enough, at least, that I wouldn't think of Rush when listening to the album unless I was specifically trying to pick out possible influences. Sure, there may have been some Rush influence, and it may resemble them here and there, but it's by no means worship or even overtly similar.
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