Eternity Rites

Eternity Rites
Studio album by Dargaard
Released	1998
Genre	Neoclassical Dark Wave
Length	47:42
Label	Draenor Productions
Producer	Tharen Elisabeth Toriser
Dargaard chronology
Eternity Rites (1998) In Nomine Aeternitatis (2000)

Eternity Rites is the debut album of Austrian band Dargaard, released in 1998 by Draenor Productions. It instills a dark rhythm and develops "a climactic fairytale full of medieval/folk themes beautifully composed and perfectly performed".^[1]

The album includes eleven tracks, two of which are different parts of the song Eternity Rites. All the tracks are composed in mixture of neo-classical, folk and dark ambient music.

The vocals of Elisabeth Toriser, the soprano with an operatic voice is also highly appreciated through most of reviews, which is "is both clear and powerful, yet strangely delicate."^[2]

Track listing

#	Title	Length
1	Eternity Rite (pt. 1: Sight from the Abyss/The Confession and Prophecy)	6:43
2	Demon Eyes	5:08
3	Fuer Grissa Est Dranka	4:10
4	Down to the Halls of the Blind	3:24
5	Nightvision	3:06
6	Arcanum Mortis	3:32
7	Eternity Rite (pt. 2: Invocation and Bounding)	5:49
8	Temple of the Moon	3:43
9	... Of Broken Stones	5:45
10	Seelenlos	4:09
11	Transfer Complete	2:07

Credits

• Tharen - composer, keyboards, vocals
• Elisabeth Toriser - vocals

References

1. ^ Reviewed by Rupture, on February 22, 1999. Retrieved on June 27, 2007
2. ^ Reviewed by The Plug. Retrieved on June 27, 2007