The Master and Margarita

XIII. stoleti - Mistr a Markétka

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XIII. Století (The thirteenth century) is a Gothic music band from Jihlava in the Czech Republic. XIII. Století arose from the punk band HNF, which was an abbreviation for Hrdinove Nove Fronty (Heroes of the New Front), but in 1992, with the release of the album Amulet, there was a drastic change of style and a new name. The punk icons were exchanged for old castles, werewolves, fairies, demons and Rosicrucians.

Two years after Amulet, which was still dominated by guitars, the band released the album Gotika in 1994. It was not entirely successful among Gothic music fans, though. Especially the song Mistr a Markétka, based on The Master and Margarita, had to suffer because it was considered being flat, commercial pop music. The songs ranged from pop to complex instrumental parts, and the parts of Margarita in the song Mistr a Markétka were performed by the opera singer Karolina Husáková.

In 2003, the band split up to come back again in 2008, but today there is hardly any news to find about XIII. Století.