Parzival has members from Denmark and Russia and has been around since 1992, first as Order of Parzival and with their current name since 1997.

Zeitgeist/Noblesse Oblige is a double album, 21 songs filled with grandiose hymns and lyrics in German, Latin and Russian. The press release suggests the music as "Dark atmospheric theatrical bombast in the same league as Laibach, but in a world of their own". I have a problem in finding the last part in that statement. The music is very similar to Laibach and the singer does his best not to destroy that feeling with the muttering chants that is heard throughout the whole album. You certainly get the feeling that you're part of a mass of some sort which could be very pleasant from time to time but with over 21 songs I think they repeat themselves too much. The title track "Zeigeist" and "Glück" have very nice synth melodies and are my favorites together with the (almost) instrumental tracks "Im gottes mund" and "Gottes mund", the latter which could be part of the brilliant soundtrack to "Conan the Barbarian". Probably in the part where Thulsa Doom begins his transformation.

Altogether the release would have been better as a regular album with less songs and I wouldn't mind a little more ”in a world of their own" the next time.

Thobias Wollhed
movinghands.net