Majestica - A Christmas Carol
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- Superb metal Christmas atmosphere
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I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Though I am especially favoring the Muppets movie version, I was absolutely fond of the fact that Swedish power metal band Majestica is going to release their version of the story in form of a metal album. The two released singles, Ghost of Marley and Ghost of Christmas Past, were already very promising. Here is my review of the album, which has been released on 4th December 2020.

Majestica – About The Artists
The roots of Majestica are in Umea, Northern Sweden, in the year 2000. The original band name was ReinXeed, However, the first eight years of the band have not been too productive – the only music recorded under that name were a few demo by founding member Tommy Johansson. In 2008, Johansson met a record company manager and redcorded the first ReinXeed. Johansson did most of the instruments and the vocals, with Jani Sefanovic being the first drummer of the band – even though Matthias Lindgren was named as such on the debut record The Light in 2008. Especially on the drummer side, there have been a couple of changes, so that the current lineup is Johansson with Chris David (bass), Alex Oriz (guitar) and Alfred Fridhagen (drums). ReinXeed overall recorded six records with the 2013 A New World being the latest one.
There has been a hiatus of ReinXeed, when Johansson joined Sabaton in 2016, but in 2019, the three members als Uli Kusch on the drums released Above the Sky, the first album labelled as Majestica. Especially the title track of the album was very successful with 1.4m streams up-to-date on YouTube only.
Majestica – A Christmas Carol – Track by Track
The Christmas Carol includes nine episodes and lasts 41 minutes:

1. A Christmas Carol
Classic instrumentation, a background choir, violin sounds… This 1:44 minute intro just brings you into Christmas atmosphere and A Christmas Carol mood. No lyircs, no guitar.
2. A Christmas Story
Fools around me, the city’s going under
Going under
Stealing, begging, poverty and plunder
Poverty and plunder
All these folks they’re nothing but a bother
All of town is
Loud, disturbing, singing for each other
I can’t stand this
Time of Christmas joy and celebration
Leave me be
Ebeneezer Scrooge is the first character who is introduced on the album, but there is also Bob Cratchit and people of the London. This first part of the story is pretty fun, powerful, but also features Christmas music, here Adeste, Fidelis in an instrumental part and later also later with lyrics by the townspeople. Cool start of the album.
3. Ghost Of Marley
The Ghost Of Marley is the second single featured before the album has been released.
[Marley] Tell me why you doubt your senses
[Scrooge] None of this is real, it can not be
[Marley] Now you’re running out of chances
[Scrooge] Spirit tell me more, or leave me be
The track is of course a dialog between Scrooge and Marley. Very powerful and again full of small Christmas references. Fun to listen.
4. Ghost Of Christmas Past
Do I hear Hark! The Angels Sing in here? Majestica connects the classic tune so beautifully with electric guitars and drumming and connects it to Scrooge meeting the first ghost. Superb one – wise choice to release this track first before the album.
5. The Joy Of Christmas
After the powerful first ghost, The Joy of Christmas is a lovely ballad tune, which might even lead to seasonal feelings to those listeners who are not headbangers at heart.
If he only
Knew the feeling
Of coming home to those
That you are holding close
This day is so much more
Than being all alone
I wish the joy of Christmas
I wish the joy would come to you
A lovely solo by Bob Cratchit.
6. Ghost Of Christmas Present
Meeting the Ghost Of Christmas Present is very powerful, but also more melodic than the first spiritual encounter.
7. Ghost Of Christmas To Come
You’re the third… The ghost of Christmas yet to come
Speak to me! Tell me what is to happen to me, to all of us
Very well… Then show me, spirit. Show me what I must see…
Scrroge needs to stand how Mr & Mrs Dilbert and the other town folks speak bad about him. Tiny Tim is dead.
[Spirit] See the grave with a name that describes a pure evil
[Scrooge] I beg of you, show me no more!
[Spirit] This will be you if when the Christmas night is trough you won’t change
[Scrooge] I will change, spirit please let me go
Great, powerful piece. Lovely story narrated. Great work by Majestica.
8. A Christmas Has Come
Bad luck that I limited my recent Christmas song posting to country Christmas tunes – this one has a lot of potential to me as the Christmas song of the year. Likely, there have never been that many jingle bells, that much kitsch, that much mushy music in a metal track. If you release this album in summer, metalheads will likely burn down the Nuklear Blast head office. But it is Christmas time – and Scrooge’s transitition just touches our hearts. What a beauty!
9. A Majestic Christmas Theme
If you need an instrumental festive track, check out this instrumental epilogue, which is again featuring a lot of Christmas classic tunes. Just a nice way to finish off this great album… And Majestica without a single electric guitar riff in here.
Majestica – A Christmas Carol – Spotify
Here is the Spotify widget of the album:
Majestica – A Christmas Carol – My View
Masterpiece meets masterpiece – Charles Dickens simply produced the most beautiful Christmas story ever to me – and Majestica turns it into an amazing small metal theatre beauty. What a great effort by the Swedes, such a lovely atmosphere and a detailed work to combine metal with the songs we all now. Tack sa mycket och god jul, Majestica – you did a great one!
And so it was, that since that day
Ebenezer Scrooge celebrated Christmas in every kind of way
And with the words of Tiny Tim, who’s journey had just begun
“Merry Christmas and god bless us, everyone”
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Paradise in Flames are a Death Metal / Black Metal band from Brazil. Even though they already exist since 2002, ...
Even despite their first two albums had rather average success, The Struts gained a lot of reputation in Great Britain ...
Benediction are quite a big name in the Death Metal scene. The British, however, haven't released any album since twelve ...
The Flyctory.com week before 16th October 2020 will be quite packed with rock and metal albums. There will be two ...
When a Rock'n'Rock Hall of Famer (which he was inducted to in 2014 as original KISS member) is releasing a ...
Four girls and hard rock? Thundermother is definitely a cool bunch of ladies. On 31st July 2020, they released the ...
When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
Three years after their previous album, Asking Alexandria released another studio album, Like A House on Fire, on 15th May 2020. The ...
From time to time, Flyctory.com needs to care about the dark tunes in music as well. The British Gothic Metal ...
60 years of Axel Rudi Pell - one of the big names in the German metal scene is celebrating this ...
Nightwish are somehow the undisputed kings of Finnish metal (even though I personally prefer Lordi). Being in the business since the ...
It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
The Swiss band Gotthard is something like their nation's national monument in the Hard Rock genre. They publish music since the ...
Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
Likely, being an Ordinary Man is one of the attributes you would least assign to Ozzy Ozbourne spontaneously. Nevertheless, the former Black Sabbath ...
I happened to run into the front lady of the Seven Spires, Adrienne Cowan, when Tobias Sammet chose her as ...
Sepuiltura are true Heavy Metal legends - with Quadra, the Brazilians already released their 15th studio album, 24 years after their ...
What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd ...
Athens, Greece, 20th May 2006 - a day that did not only change my life, but the life of a ...
24th January 2020 felt to be the "Metal Heroes do solo album" day of the year. Shortly after I had ...
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut ...
Due to my contacts to the Greek metal scene, which really seems to have a lot of musical talents, I ...
Due to my contact to a Greek metal music promotion agency, I ran into another Greek metal album. The band ...
Project Renegade are the first Greek act I am reviewing on Flyctory.com. The metal quartet present their debut album Order Of ...
There is not just Vivaldi and Pavarotti - Italy also has quite a strong Metal scene. One of the key ...
If you record songs like Death to All But Metal or Bukkake Tears and you do it good, you may make it big ...
I saw the Black Star Rides some years ago as a support act of Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their ...
Tarja Turunen - the Finnish Opera and metal voice became a legend with Nightwish. After the split from her band ...
Sometimes, Flyctory.com is covering quite a range of topics within one day: while I started the day with the review ...
Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
Flyctory.com Floorball Postings
Here are all Floorball-related postings on Flyctory.com:
On Saturday, 1st February 2025, the Europe 2 Qualification to the Women's World Floorball Championships came to an end. While ...
With the surprising loss against the Netherlands, Denmark had to go into the Place 5 match of the 2025 WFC ...
I have to admit that that I was afraid about that moment. Two of my favorite national teams, the Hungarian ...
While Denmark vs. Netherlands does not feel like a too interesting match-up for floorball traditionalists, the days in Lignano Sabbiadoro ...
The last match on 30th January 2025 at the Europe 2 World Floorball Qualification in Italy saw Poland versus Slovakia ...
Apart from my favored Hungarian national team, the Swiss Unihockey delegation competed the World Floorball Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro. On ...
After the Netherlands had practically made their way into the Place 5 match beating Hungary, somehow the same match-up followed ...
At the end of January 2025, I headed to Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy, close to Venice. In parallel to two ...
I originally wanted to start covering the Women World Floorball Championship Qualification 2025 in Italy on the second match day ...
For the second F-Liiga match in January 2025, I traveled from Helsinki to Lappeenranta. The 18th January 2025 match was ...
Back in Finland: on 17th January 2025, I traveled to the Nordic country for two floorball matches. The Friday evening ...
has come to an end - and my Best of posting is the one which is "traditionally" concluding the year. The ...
Just about a year after I have been to Wallenstam Arena the last time, it was time for another floorball ...
the After Pixbo's ladies match vs. Falun, Wallenstam Arena hosted another game of the Gothenburg floorball team. In the Men's ...
Derby day in Hamburg: after ETV Hamburg's second team had faced TV Eiche Horn Bremen in the match before, their ...
ETV Hamburg vs. TV Eiche Horn Bremen - this match feels like such an icon in the German floorball scene ...
After the women's match against Erlensee, SSF Dragons Bonn had another very interesting match-up on 3rd November 2024. Their home ...
Whole I struggled with squeezing floorball matches in Germany into my schedule in previous seasons, the 2024/25 provides a schedule ...
After the Hungarian ladies, the Hungarian Men National Team took the floor in Erd. They faced the same match-up, being ...
My second match in Hungary on 18th October 2024 was somehow the "top match" for me. The team I am ...
Andras Czitrom has definitely been one of the key drivers of floorball development in Hungary. For the second time, the ...
After I already featured the Dresden vs. Weißenfels match at the first match day of the German Floorball Bundesliga, 22nd ...
As Floorball Deutschland typically releases the match schedules for the German Bundesliga rather late (even significantly later than the clubs ...
Wow, what an intense week. Flyctory.com felt like my former sports project, sport-live.net, the last ten days. So many match ...
On the men's finals side, I concentrated on two matches of the final 3x3 World Floorball Championships match day. From ...
A German team competing for the medal - the effort of the German national team at the 3x3 Floorball WFC ...
After my first posting about the debut event of the 3x3 World Floorball Championships was about the first day of ...
In my introductory posting, I already introduced you to the concept of 3x3 Floorball and the first World Floorball Championships ...
Finally, it somehow felt (again) like business as usual. Even though both teams had some semifinal struggles, Finland and Sweden ...
After the Place 7 and Place 9 machtes at the beginning of the day, 12th May 2024 in Lahti solely ...
After the dramatic semifinal between Sweden and Switzerland, 1,700 spectators in Lahti waited for their team battling Czechia for the ...
In the world of floorball, running into Sweden is typically the toughest faith you can have. The Swiss Under 19 ...
While Sweden and Switzerland battled in the first semifinal in the main arena, Hungary and New Zealand battled on the ...
After the Hungarian Under 19 girls showed a brave fight against Denmark the match before, their chance to be successful ...
After Switzerland had a lot of trouble with Slovakia before, Finland was aware not too take their final group match ...
After the Swiss National Team had a rather disappointing last period in their second match against Czechia, it was time ...
The third and thus last group match day at the Under 19 Girls World Floorball Championships featured the Oceania battle ...
After Canada had lost their first match against Hungary, they ran into Italy on 9th May 2024. Especially the small ...
Denmark has been regarded being the strongest team in Group D of the 2024 Under 19 World Floorball Championships. Not ...
Right after the Czechia vs. Switzerland match, the Under 19 Girls World Floorball Championships hosted the Classico in that sports ...
Time to get the (potentially) better spot for the semifinals. The second floorball match on the main court of Lahti's ...
While you can hardly expect to beat one of the "big" countries in the top groups of a World Floorball ...
The draw in Group C at the Under 19 Girls World Floorball Championships 2024 in Lahti was a bit of ...
Of course, when a Hungarian women's national team is in the rink, I do get a bit of more emotional ...
Slovakia faced Czechia in Group A on Day 1. The neighbor state derby was one of the most interesting match-ups ...
Even though the match between Latvia and Switzerland was obviously a match in the top 8 nations section of the ...
The first match of Arena B was the Scandinavian battle between Norway and Sweden. Of course, the yellow and blue ...
I over-estimated the travel time from Helsinki, so that I indeed made it to the first Under 19 WFC match ...
In a short amount of time small field floorball boosted from a hobby and youth version of the sports to ...
I'm back! After having skipped quite a few ones, due to physical and mental reasons, I am about to fly ...
After the women's final already had a duel of two big names of the Swedish floorball scene, the men's final ...
World record attendance matches in late April 2024. The Swedish Floorball Federation invited to nothing but that in order to ...
Since a couple of years, I have a group of so-called Featured Artists - musicians, which are in a special ...
Three and a half hours after the women's final's face-off (and just some 40 minutes after its ceremonies), BCF-Arena in ...
On 20th April 2024, I headed to Switzerland. The Swiss Floorball Superfinals, held in Fribourg for the first time, required ...
Just two weeks after I featured the Dümptener Füchse women's team at Erlensee, I had them on my schedule again ...
The second match in the Großsporthalle Erlensee on 17th February 2024 was a match in the South-West division of the 2nd ...
As part of my initiative to have more sports coverage in 2024, I traveled to Erlensee on 17th February 2024 ...
Getting into the FInal4, the semifinal and final event of the German Floorball Cup, is likely one of the most ...
The key reason why I traveled to Switzerland on Saturday, 6th January 2024, was the match between UH Lejon Zäzwil ...
There are nowadays not too many opportunities for me any more to see two or more (meaningful) floorball matches on ...
Is it really New Year's Eve already again? The last day of the year? I am posting this one in ...
Yeah, I have to give in, it is really a bit of weird to travel to Sweden for a single ...
While the first match at Mobiliar Arena between Floorball Köniz Bern and Tatran Stresovice was the first leg of the ...
The Floorball Champions Cup 2024 indeed feels much more like a "real" European Cup competition introducing home and away matches ...
Semifinal time in the German floorball playoffs: after I already took you to the first women quarterfinal match between Bonn ...
Floorball playoff time in Bonn: on 26th March 2023, the SSF Dragons Bonn hosted the first best of three match ...
Especially when I wrote my Best Ones 2022 posting recently, I absolutely felt that I should increase the coverage of sports events ...
Back in the Harz region: I loved to be in the area where I used to live for some seven ...
The last posting of the year - Best Ones 2022 is introducing you to my best experience last years (as ...
26th June 2022, Mülheim-Dümpten, Von-der-Tann Straße sports hall, 14:00 hrs local time: The final two teams, fighting through the group matches and ...
The second last match of the German Under 15 Girls National Championships featured the two losing teams of the semifinals, ...
From the senior girls to the very young ones: while the Dümptener Füchs from Mülheim, Ruhrgebiet region, just have become ...
As I have been in Berlin but could not and did not really want to do a full coverage of ...
It's been quite a while ago since I stepped foot into Sportpark Nord, the home arena of the SSF Dragons ...
It is time for the final posting of the years, simply named The Best Ones 2021. After looking into my ...
I could not make it to the World Floorball Championships in Uppsala (Women) and Helsinki (Men, postponed from 2020) this ...
SB-Pro vs. Turku, part 2: just the day after SB-Pro beat FBC Loisto on the road, they hosted their local ...
Back to the EräViikingit: after I had visited their home match against Classic two days before, I had another match ...
The second match of my October 2021 trip took me to Turku, FBC Loisto, the women team of FBC Turku, ...
The second-placed team against the third-placed one - what a great way to be back in floorball after the Covid-19 ...
After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
Mlada Bolesav - a 44,000 people city in Czech Repiblic, some 65 kilometers Northeast of Prague. Though the city's history ...
SB-Pro Nurmijärvi vs. Classic Tampere - this has been the traditional match setup for years, when it comes to the ...
The match on 18th January 2020 was likely a tougher one for SB-Pro: trailing 0-5 against Swiss champtions Kloten-Dietlikon Jets ...
While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
You may have visited Flyctory.com the last days hoping to have some coverage of the Neuchatel World Floorball Championships this ...
Before I went to Zons and watched the German interpretation of Rock of Ages at the Zons Open Air Theater, ...
A day after SSF Bonn's ladies home match versus Leipzig/Grimma, I watched the men's team in Holzbüttgen. Sunday Night Floorball ...
DJK Holzbüttgen close to Dusseldorf and Cologne is an amazing masterpiece of local sports club management. Having started with very ...
Just some sixth month I had a match between the Red Ants Rychenberg and UHC Laupen in the Women NLA ...
At the beginning of April 2019, the floorball seasons worldwide were already about to reach their climax. On 6th April ...
Sunday morning in Trencin started with a clash between Russia and Germany. The winner of that match would get the ...
Austria had the tough task in their final match to learn against Finland and maybe gain some experience towards the ...
On the road to Neuchatel, Hungary and Netherlands had quite bad positions, but at least the advantage that they knew ...
Slovakia and Latvia were both already qualified for Neuchatel when they competed in the second last match of the Trencin ...
After the Netherlands showed a good fight against Slovakia, they had to compete against likely the strongest team in their ...
After Slovakia had quite some trouble with the Netherlands the day before, the neighborhood battle between the hosts and the ...
In the third match of Saturday, there was absolutely no discussion about the roles: Finland was the absolute favorite against ...
While the match between Austria and Spain was majorly the battle against the last place in European Group 2, it ...
Russia was the clear favorite for this second Friday match of the World Floorball Championship Qualification. Austria suffered from a ...
Slovakia had their third match on Friday evening, concluding the first round of matches of Qualification Group 4. Being nominally ...
After I made my way from Germany to Vienna and headed on to Trencin by car, the match between Germany ...
The "Road to Neuchatel 2019" - as only the Swiss team is qualified for their home World Floorball Championships in ...
It's been quite a while since I have been in Frauenfeld. The key reason for visits with unihockey-pics.de has been ...
Saturday, 19th January 2019, featured an interesting match in the Women Floorball Swiss Nationalliga B: The Floorball Riders hosted Appenzell, ...
The last match of my January floorball trip to Sweden lead me to Täby in Northern Stockholm. It was the ...
A day after the Floorball Club Champions have been determined without any German competitor, I went from Scandic Hotel Gävle ...
After IKSU did what they expected to do (and stayed unbeaten), it was up to Storvreta to complete the Swedish ...
IKSU have been beaten the last time in a compulsory match in December 2017. How you include that in Vitkovice's ...
After both teams had no chance against their Scandinavian opponents in the semis, the Place 3 Match felt to have ...
The semifinal day of the 2019 Floorball Champions Cup concluded with the 2nd Men Semifinal. Swedish Champion Storvreta IBK faced ...
The matchup for the Women Bronze Medal match was quite unexpected, but also very interesting. After SB-Pro did not manage ...
Playing the Swedish champion and reigning Floorball Champions Cup holder IKSU from Umea was likely the most unfortunate task Swiss ...
Two days, two matches for each team to win the title - I already summed up the compressed route to ...
Finnish Champion SC Classic from Tampere and Top-of-Switzerland Floorball Köniz opened the Men Tournament of the 2019 Floorball Champions Cup ...
No floorball competition is changing that frequently like the Champions Cup. While previous season, six men and women teams each ...
Right before the NLA match against UHC Laupen, the Red Ants Rychenberg hosted UHC "WaSa" Waldkirch-St. Gallen. The Ants placed ...
The Winterthur, Switzerland, traditional women team Red Ants Rychenberg was one of the first teams I regularly worked with during ...
Back to Nurmijärvi: on 6th October 2018, I headed to Finland to see my favourite women's club team, SB-Pro, out ...
9th September, first matchday of the Men Bundesliga. One of the most interesting teams of the new season is likely ...
While the Women match-up for the Superfinal has been the expected one, Happee as fourth-placed team in the regular season ...
One has to admit that betting on that pairing of the two dominators of Finnish Women Floorball would not have ...
Writing that match report as one of the start-up (and testing) article entries on flyctory.com felt so easy to me: ...