Awaking the Centuries

Awaking the Centuries is the second full-length album by German symphonic metal band Haggard. It was released on 7 February 2000 by Drakkar Entertainment.^[1] The album is based on Michel De Nostredame (Nostradamus) and his experience during The Black Plague in medieval Europe. The album features several compositions based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's music.

Awaking the Centuries
Studio album by Haggard
Released	7 February 2000[1]
Recorded	September–December 1999
Studio	Roth Recording
Genre	Symphonic death metal,[2] death-doom
Length	37:39
Label	Drakkar Entertainment
Haggard chronology
And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer (1997) Awaking the Centuries (2000) Awaking the Gods: Live in Mexico (2001)

Awakening the Centuries peaked at position 64 in the German album charts.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rachmaninov: Choir" (music by Sergei Rachmaninoff)	0:38
2.	"Pestilencia"	1:54
3.	"Heavenly Damnation"	2:59
4.	"The Final Victory"	3:35
5.	"Saltorella la Manuelina"	0:57
6.	"Awaking the Centuries"	9:34
7.	"Statement zur Lage der Musica"	1:19
8.	"In a Fullmoon Procession"	5:18
9.	"Menuett"	1:19
10.	"Prophecy Fulfilled/And the Dark Night Entered"	6:23
11.	"Courante"	1:10
12.	"Rachmaninov: Choir" (Rachmaninoff)	2:34
13.	"Lost (Robin's Song)" (live digipak bonus track)	4:38
Total length:		42:17

Note

• The choir tracks at the beginning and at the end of the record are an abridged and a complete version of "Rejoice, o virgin" from Sergei Rachmaninoff's choral work All-Night Vigil.

Personnel

Asis Nasseri – grunt vocals, guitars, kettle drums Luz Marsen – drums, percussion Andi Nad – bass Danny Klupp – guitars Karin Bodenmüller – soprano Hans Wolf – grand piano, piano, church organ keyboards Kathrin Pechlof – concert harp Fiffi Fuhrmann – tenore Christian – tenore Thomas Rosato – bass Christoph Zastrow – flute Florian Bartl – oboe Robert Müller – clarinet Andrea Sterr – violin Michael Stapf – violin Steffi Hertz – viola Kathrin Hertz – violoncello Georg Uttenthaler – doublebass Florian Schnellinger – percussion Peter Prysch – French horn

Guest musicians Evert Fratermann – orchestral percussion Ilka Mende – violin Fabian Schwarz – acoustic guitars Voices of "Pestilencia" Ulrich Mühlmann – "Nostradamus" Carsten Jacob – "Monk" Christiane B.Horn – "Woman 1" Eveline Gerhardt – "Woman 2" Wolfgang Weißmüller – "Man" Moscow Radio Choir Elena Rastvorova – conductor Olga Uschakova – soprano Maria Kutuzova – soprano Ekaterina Oblesova – alto Katja Prasolova – alto Vladimir Tarasov – tenor Oleg Kuzmin – tenor Anton Vasiljev – bass Evgeny Astafurov – bass