Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards | ||||
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Studio album by Gloryhammer | ||||
Released | September 25, 2015 | |||
Recorded | LSD Studios, Lübeck, Germany, April–May 2015 | |||
Genre | Power metal | |||
Label | Napalm Records | |||
Producer | Lasse Lammert | |||
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Singles from Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metal Hammer (Germany) | 5/7 |
Revolver | 4/5 |
Rock Hard | 7.5/10 |
Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards is the second album by Scottish-Swiss symphonic power metal band Gloryhammer. It was released on September 25, 2015. The deluxe edition contains an additional disc of orchestral renditions of the full album, with alternate titles. It reached number 18 in the UK Rock & Metal Charts.
In 1992, a millennium after the events of Tales from the Kingdom of Fife, the evil wizard Zargothrax remains in cryogenic sleep, imprisoned on Triton and guarded by the Space Knights of Crail (“Infernus Ad Astra”). A cult of “unholy chaos wizards” plot his release and attack Triton, defeating the Knights and freeing Zargothrax, who promises to terrorize the galaxy (“Rise of the Chaos Wizards”). The intergalactic warrior Angus McFife XIII, descendant of the original Angus McFife, sets out to thwart him once again, wielding the powerful Astral Hammer (“Legend of the Astral Hammer”).
Zargothrax seeks out the Goblin King, who gives him the crystal key to a secret portal to Hell that lies on Earth beneath Dundee (“Goblin King of the Darkstorm Galaxy”). Meanwhile, McFife is joined by the legendary Hollywood Hootsman (“The Hollywood Hootsman”), the reformed Knights of Crail led by Ser Proletius and Triton survivor Ser Regulon (“Victorious Eagle Warfare”), and the Questlords of Inverness (“Questlords of Inverness, Ride to the Galactic Fortress!”). Both the allied forces (“Heroes [of Dundee]”) and Zargothrax’s demonic army (“Universe on Fire”) prepare for battle in the skies above Mars.
As the opposing forces clash, with heavy casualties for McFife’s allies, Zargothrax returns to Earth where, in the caverns beneath Dundee, he begins a ritual to unleash the hellish Elder God Kor-Virliath upon the galaxy. Warned of the danger by the hermit Ralathor, the Hootsman speeds back to Earth and detonates his body’s neutron bomb, destroying the entire planet and stopping the ritual just in time (“Apocalypse 1992”). Foiled, the furious Zargothrax escapes into another reality through the ensuing chaotic space-time rift, pursued closely by Angus McFife XIII.