At the Gates of Utopia

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At the Gates of Utopia
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 23rd, 2001
Genre Symphonic black metal
Power metal
Length46:54
Label Scarlet Records
Stormlord chronology
Supreme Art of War
(1999)
At the Gates of Utopia
(2001)
The Gorgon Cult
(2004)

At the Gates of Utopia is the second studio album by the Italian symphonic black metal band Stormlord.

Italy republic in Southern Europe

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a European country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Italian Alps and surrounded by several islands. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and traversed along its length by the Apennines, Italy has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. The country covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and shares open land borders with France, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in the Tunisian Sea (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the fourth-most populous member state of the European Union.

Symphonic black metal is a subgenre of black metal that emerged in the mid to late 1990s, and incorporates symphonic and orchestral elements.

Stormlord is an extreme metal band from Rome, Italy. They have released five full-length albums to date: Supreme Art of War (1999), At the Gates of Utopia (2001), The Gorgon Cult (2004), Mare Nostrum (2008), and Hesperia (2013), with a sixth, Far, due in 2019. Their prominent use of keyboards compared to many other black metal bands gives their sound an epic feel, much like power metal.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Under the Samnites' Spears" – 6:50
  2. "I Am Legend" – 5:07
  3. "Xanadu (A Vision in a Dream)" – 4:21
  4. "And Winter Was" – 4:16
  5. "At the Gates of Utopia" – Instrumental – 2:25
  6. "The Curse of Medusa" – 6:33
  7. "The Burning Hope" – 6:21
  8. "A Sight Inwards" – 4:40
  9. "The Secrets of the Earth" – 6:18

Personnel

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses.

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