Acceleration (album)

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Acceleration
Age of Silence - Acceleration.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 14, 2004 (2004-09-14)
Recorded2004
Genre Avant-garde metal, progressive metal
Length45:10
Label The End Records
Producer Andy Winter
Age of Silence chronology
Acceleration
(2004)
Complication - Trilogy Of Intricacy
(2005)
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Acceleration is the first full-length album by Norwegian avant-garde progressive metal band Age of Silence. [2] It was released on September 14, 2004.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Auditorium of Modern Movements" (Winter, Lazare) – 3:36
  2. "Acceleration" (Winter, Lazare) – 4:30
  3. "The Concept of Hate" (Winter, Lazare) – 4:09
  4. "A Song for D. Incorporated" (Winter, Lazare) – 4:58
  5. "The Green Office and the Dark Desk Drawer" (Winter, Lazare) – 4:17
  6. "The Flow at 9:30 am" (Winter, Lazare) – 6:25
  7. "Of Concrete and Glass" (Winter, Lazare) – 3:14
  8. "90° Angles" (Extant, Lazare) – 7:19
  9. "I No Longer Know If I Am Mad" (Extant, Kobbergaard) – 2:28
  10. "Synthetic, Fabricated, Calculated" (Extant, Lazare) – 4:11

Personnel

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