EX LIBRIS - Ann (Full Album Trilogy with Music Videos and Timestamps)

Label: Not On Label (Ex Libris Self-released) Format: 2xCD, 2×LP, Compilation Country: Netherlands Released: Nov 15 2019 Genre: Rock Style: Progressive Metal, Symphonic Rock Ex Libris began work on their third studio album, a metal trilogy called Ann. It was divided into three chapters, each one about a different Ann that lived in different times and places, sharing the same fate – death. The first chapter, called Anne Boleyn, was released on 1 August 2018. The second one, called Anastasia Romanova, was released on 15 March 2019. The third and final chapter, called Anne Frank, was released on 15 November 2019 along with the complete edition with all three EPs. Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation. Henry VIII focused on annulling his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, so he would be free to marry Anne. After failing to obtain an annulment from Pope Clement VII, it became clear the marriage would not be annulled by the Catholic Church. Henry and Anne formally married on 25 January 1533, after a secret wedding on 14 November 1532. As a result of the marriage and excommunications, the first break between the Church of England and the Catholic Church took place, and the King took control of the Church of England. Anne was crowned queen on 1 June 1533. On 7 September, she gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I. Henry was disappointed to have a daughter, but hoped a son would follow and professed to love Elizabeth. Anne subsequently had three miscarriages and by March 1536, Henry was courting Jane Seymour. Henry had Anne investigated for high treason in April 1536. On 2 May, she was arrested and sent to the Tower of London, where she was tried before a jury, including Henry Percy, her former betrothed, and her uncle Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. She was convicted on 15 May and beheaded four days later. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (18 June 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Anastasia was the younger sister of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria and was the elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. She was murdered with her whole family by a group of Bolsheviks who were against the Monarchy in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – 1945) was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide fame posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944. Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four and a half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control of Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam due to Germany's occupation. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in rooms concealed behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The family was arrested two years later by the Gestapo, on 4 August 1944. Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944,Anne Frank and her sister, Margot were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. Otto Frank, the only Holocaust survivor in the family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947. SONGS Chapter 1: Anne Boleyn 1-1 The Courtship 00:00 1-2 The Miscarriage 06:15 1-3 The Beheading 10:48 Chapter 2: Anastasia Romanova 1-4 The Motherland 17:43 1-5 The Healer 24:23 1-6 The Exile 30:06 Chapter 3: Anne Frank 1-7 The Diary 38:16 1-8 The Annex 42:09 1-9 The Raid 48:12 CREDITS Artwork – Jelle Steenhuisen Bass Guitar – Luuk van Gerven Choir [Guest Appearance] – Oeral Kozakkenkoor Conductor [Oeral Kozakkenkoor] – Gregor Bak Drums – Harmen Kieboom Engineer – Jos Driessen Guitar – Bob Wijtsma Keyboards, Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Joost van den Broek Mastered By – Darius van Helfteren Music By – Ex Libris Photography By [Band] – Jeroen Moerdijk Violin [Guest Appereance] – Ben Mathot Vocals, Lyrics By – Dianne van Giersbergen For the full Ex Libris Discography, click here:    • EX LIBRIS - The Full Discography