''Verehrt und angespien'' ("Worshipped and Spat Upon") is the second

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folk metal Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for example ...

album by the German band

In Extremo In Extremo (Latin for ''At the Edge''; abbreviated InEx or IE) is a German medieval metal band originally from Berlin. The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock/metal instr ...

. It was released in 1999 by

Mercury Records Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. Mercury Records released ...

Track listing

# "

Merseburger Zaubersprüche The Merseburg charms, Merseburg spells, or Merseburg incantations () are two Middle Ages, medieval magic spells, charms or incantations, written in Old High German. They are the only known examples of Germanic paganism, Germanic pagan belief prese ...

" (Unknown author, 10th century/In Extremo) – 4:27 # "Ich kenne alles (I Know Everything)" (

François Villon François Villon (; Modern French: ; ; – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these e ...

/In Extremo) – 3:04 # " Herr Mannelig" (Traditional lyrics and music) – 4:55 # "

Pavane The ''pavane'' ( ; , ''padovana''; ) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's ...

" (Traditional lyrics/In Extremo) – 5:00 # "Spielmannsfluch (The Gleeman's Bane)" (

Ludwig Uhland Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, b ...

/In Extremo) – 3:40 # "Weiberfell" (François Villon/In Extremo) – 4:27 # " Miss Gordon of Gight" (In Extremo) – 2:09 # "Werd ich am Galgen hochgezogen (When I Am Hoisted on the Gallows)" (François Villon/In Extremo) – 3:47 # "

This Corrosion "This Corrosion" is a song by the English rock band the Sisters of Mercy, released as the lead single from their second studio album, '' Floodland'' (1987), in September 1987. The song peaked at number 6 in Ireland, number 7 in the UK, and number 1 ...

" (

The Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band formed in Leeds in 1980. After achieving early underground fame, the band experienced a commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s, sustaining their success until the early 1990s, when they halted th ...

cover) – 4:02 # "Santa Maria" (Traditional lyrics and music/In Extremo) – 4:27 # "" (Traditional lyrics and music) – 3:57 # "In Extremo" (In Extremo) – 4:26 Bonus track: # "Herr Mannelig" (Acoustic Version) – 3:08

Personnel

* Das letzte Einhorn – vocals,

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cittern The cittern or cithren ( Fr. ''cistre'', It. ''cetra'', Ger. ''Cister,'' Sp. ''cistro, cedra, cítola'') is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is d ...

* Thomas der Münzer –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Die Lutter –

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, marine trumpet * Der Morgenstern –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

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* Dr. Pymonte – German bagpipes,

shawm The shawm () is a Bore (wind instruments)#Conical bore, conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 13th or possibly 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissanc ...

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

, harp * Flex der Biegsame – German bagpipes, shawm, flute * Yellow Pfeiffer – German bagpipes, shawm, flute,

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References

* 1999 albums In Extremo albums Mercury Records albums Metal Blade Records albums Vertigo Records albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub