Pagan Reign - Once Again download free

This is without any doubt a Pagan Reign album: with recognizable melodies, composition style, vocals of Orey and overall atmosphere. By saying “recognizable” I mean that it still sounds like Pagan Reign, even 12 years later after their previous release, and its definitely cool. In this record band used many folk instruments, and this worked out pretty well: acoustic parts and compositions are just beautiful and became a great addition to the overall “metalicity” (I do really enjoyed acoustic tracks a lot!) The lyrics are more deep than on the previous works of the band, using not just common slavonic paganism themes, but also telling about cosmic forces (the whole album seems to be space-oriented in some way) and spirituality, going beyond the borders of standard pagan metal acts. Almost all lyrics were written in English, and for me it is rather disappointing fact, but whatever.In addition to the new songs there are two re-arranged and re-recorded ones: Pagan Reign (“Господство язычества” from the promo of “Древние воины” or the album “Отблески славы и возрождение былого величия”) and “The Dawn” (“Рассвет” from the album “Древние воины”). Vocal parts in “Pagan Reign” is way more faster than in the original song and sounds very strange to me (maybe because I got used to the 2002-2003 versions); on the other hand, both songs became more complex because of re-arrangement and using of live folk instruments, so they definitely worth listening.Physically “Once Again” was released as CD in digipak with slipcase, which has a golden hotfoiled band logo and album title; it is also featured with the 28-page booklet containing all the lyrics. Nothing unpredictable, but everything was done in genre-fitting style, so anyway it’s nice. There is also a special boxed version with t-shirt and some other bonus stuff, but I don't have it, so I only pointed on it in this review.To sum up: if you’re a fan of Pagan Reign or slavonic pagan metal, you should definitely check out this record. “Once Again” is also recommended to the lovers of folk music because of wonderful acoustic parts and compositions and to all the fans of pagan metal in general.