Awaking the Centuries

Awaking the Centuries
Studio album by
Released7 February 2000[1]
RecordedSeptember–December 1999
StudioRoth Recording
GenreSymphonic death metal,[2] death-doom
Length37:39
LabelDrakkar Entertainment
Haggard chronology
And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer
(1997)
Awaking the Centuries
(2000)
Awaking the Gods: Live in Mexico
(2001)

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.

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

  1. ^ a b Awaking the Centuries
  2. ^ "The 10 Essential Symphonic Metal Albums". Metal Hammer. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Chartverfolgung / Haggard / Longplay". musicline.de (in German). PHONONET GmbH. Retrieved 26 April 2012.