Monuments (Edguy album)

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Monuments
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Compilation album by
Released14 July 2017
Genre Power metal, heavy metal
Length150:13 (compilation CDs)
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Sascha Paeth, Edguy
Edguy chronology
Space Police: Defenders of the Crown
(2014)
Monuments
(2017)

Monuments is a compilation album by the German power metal band Edguy, released on 14 July 2017. [1] The album was released as a two-CD/DVD package including 22 previously released songs, five new songs, and one previously unreleased song originally recorded in 1995 for the demo version of The Savage Poetry . The package also includes a two-hour DVD and a photobook. [2] Frontman Tobias Sammet wrote two of the new songs on his own, while guitarists Jens Ludwig, Dirk Sauer and bassist Tobias Exxel co-wrote each of the other three. [3]

Contents

Track listing

Compilation CD 1 [4] [5] [6]
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Ravenblack" (New track)Monuments5:08
2."Wrestle the Devil" (New track)Monuments4:00
3."Open Sesame" (New track)Monuments5:00
4."Landmarks" (New track)Monuments4:34
5."The Mountaineer" (New track)Monuments3:57
6."9-2-9" Tinnitus Sanctus 3:47
7."Defenders of the Crown" Space Police: Defenders of the Crown 5:42
8."Save Me" Rocket Ride 3:46
9."The Piper Never Dies" Hellfire Club 10:10
10."Lavatory Love Machine"Hellfire Club4:23
11."King of Fools"Hellfire Club4:20
12."Superheroes"Rocket Ride3:19
13."Love Tyger"Space Police: Defenders of the Crown4:27
14."Ministry of Saints"Tinnitus Sanctus5:03
15."Tears of a Mandrake" Mandrake 7:14
Total length:74:50
Compilation CD 2
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Mysteria"Hellfire Club5:46
2."Vain Glory Opera" (feat. Hansi Kürsch) Vain Glory Opera 6:09
3."Rock of Cashel" Age of the Joker 6:18
4."Judas at the Opera" (feat. Michael Kiske) Superheroes (EP) 7:19
5."Holy Water" King of Fools (EP) 4:13
6."Spooks in the Attic"Superheroes (EP)4:03
7."Babylon" Theater of Salvation 6:13
8."The Eternal Wayfarer"Space Police: Defenders of the Crown8:49
9."Out of Control" (feat. Hansi Kürsch)Vain Glory Opera5:05
10."Land of the Miracle"Theater of Salvation6:33
11."Key to My Fate" Savage Poetry 4:33
12."Space Police"Space Police: Defenders of the Crown6:03
13."Reborn in the Waste" (Previously unreleased)Savage Poetry4:19
Total length:75:23
Live CD 1
No.TitleLength
1."Mysteria" 
2."Under the Moon" 
3."Navigator" 
4."Wake Up the King" 
5."Land of the Miracle" 
6."Lavatory Love Machine" 
7."Vain Glory Opera" 
8."Fallen Angels" 
Live CD 2
No.TitleLength
1."The Piper Never Dies" 
2."Babylon" 
3."King of Fools" 
4."Chalice of Agony" (Avantasia cover featuring André Matos) 
5."Tears of a Mandrake" 
6."Out of Control" 

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [7] 20
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [8] 195
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [9] 105
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [10] 19
French Albums (SNEP) [11] 177
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [12] 6
Oricon weekly chart107 [13]
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [14] 70
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [15] 50
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [16] 16

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