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Bendida - "The First of the Heroes" (digipack, 2020)

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The second album of the Bulgarian symphonic metal band - Bendida. Presented in digipack format, "The First of the Heroes" offers you 10 songs letting you to discover the amazing story of the "Epic of Gilgamesh", courtesy of "Psychosounds Music".

Presented as 24 panels digipack cd.

Tracklist
1 Enter The Sanctuary
2 Legend Of Gilgamesh
3 Hunt The Hunter
4 Vampires' Ball
5 Beast And Man
6 Desolated Sea
7 Music Of The Spheres
8 The Fern Flower
9 Lady Of Eternal Winter
10 Dawn Of Man
11 Civilization
12 Middle Ages
13 Apogee
14 Demolition
15 The New World

Produced by Vinnie Atanasov, Alexander Panayotov
and Psychosounds Music
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All music, lyrics and arrangements by Vinnie Atanasov
www.bendida.net
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Vladimir Bochev
Songs recorded at Zero Project Studio
Between August 2019 and December 2019
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Artwork Kremena Nikolova
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Layout Radu Otarasanu
Band photography by Jordan Chapkanov https://www.facebook.com/chapkanov.photography/
Art direction and stylist – Kremena Nikolova

Band members:
Kremena Nikolova – lead and back vocals, choirs;
Vinnie Atanasov – electric and acoustic guitars, tambura, harsh and clean male vocals, choirs. Programming, orchestrations, arrangements;
Alexander Panayotov – bass;
Bisera Dimitrova – violin;
Ralitsa Georgieva – piano;
Velislav Kazakov – drums;
Vyara Grancharova – viola da gamba;
Plamen Dimitrov – french horn;

Guest musicians:
Janika Gross (Haggard, Molllust) – vocals on Vampires’ Ball;
Dimitar Naydev (Ghost Warfare) – harsh vocals on Hunt the Hunter;

Choir:
Sveta Paraskeva Academic Choir at the National Academy of Art
Galina Lucanova – choir’s conductor
Steliana Barakova,Yolina Daneva,Lyubomira Boyadzhieva,Ivanka Terziyska,Maria Pashkunova,

Listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty59RYjkSIU

Stefan Balev,Orlin Vitanov,Fabio Zanella,Manol Paskalev,Kristiyan Aleksiev,Marin Iliev;

In the song Apogee (part 4 of History of the World) are used elements from Ronde 5 (Wo bistu) composed by Tielman Susato and Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major by Johann Sebastian Bach,
Arranged by Vinnie Atanasov;