![]() As it turns out, less isn’t necessarily more if you haphazardly lop off your vital components. Though not without great moments, it was weighed down by empty, excessive symphonics, something I had hoped would be rectified given Origine’s relatively trim 57-minute run time. Their 2014 record A New Dawn Ending, however, was something of a minor disappointment. Arriving at a time when even the first wave of Rhapsody imitators were beginning to lose relevance, the Bards fully embraced the irony of their “Ancient” moniker, injecting a well-worn formula with Power Quest-levels of sugar-coated melodies and the invigorating folk overtures of Equilibrium to formulate something that was fully cheesy, yet fully fresh. When it comes to my favorite metal guilty pleasures of the past decade, Ancient Bards’ first two records have locked down a pretty sweet slot.
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