Magic Spellcraft

Magic Spellcraft
Studio album by Artefact
Released	Finnvox Studio, 2006
Recorded	2005
Genre	Melodic black metal
Length	54:45
Label	Rupture Music
Artefact chronology
Son of Solstice (2002) Magic Spellcraft (2006) Ruins (2008)

Magic Spellcraft is the second Artefact album, recorded at Finnvox studio in 2005. It was released by Rupture Music on May 18, 2006. In this second opus, created and recorded when coming back from Wacken Open Air Festival, where they won third prize during a Wacken Battle, Artefact shows a powerful maturity: guitar epics, medieval paintings, deep shrieking vocals as well as choirs.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Magic Spellcraft" − 6:03
2. "Neolithic Era" − 10:28
3. "Blizzard Dwarf Army" − 10:06
4. "Mount Doom" − 4:54
5. "Altar of Nocturnal Forest" − 3:24
6. "Castle (The Underground Galleries)" − 6:26
7. "High Landscape Travel" − 4:07
8. "Hyperion" − 6:36
9. "Eerie Anthem" − 2:41
10. "Untitled Track" (remade songs from the The Legend of Zelda video games by Koji Kondo) − 6:05 (part 1: the first part of The Legend of Zelda theme (moves into part of Ganondorf's theme with haunting keyboards) and after this repeats some part of a song twice, part 2: a Zelda song from Super Smash Bros. Melee specifically the "Temple" stage and again repeats the same song from part 1 twice, part 3: someplace after the song from SSBM it may be a song from A Link to the Past, part 4: the second part of the theme to The Legend of Zelda)

Credits

• Runenlyd – vocals
• Aldebaran – guitar, backing vocals, keyboard
• Alucard – guitar
• Ranko – drums
• Alexis – bass guitar
• Metalex − front cover artwork

External links

• Artefact : official site
• Artefact on MySpace.com
• Listen to the full album on the band's website

References

1. ^ osCommerce