Child of Glass (album)

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Child of Glass
Blutengel, 1st album.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 22, 1999
Length74:07
Label SPV Records (Germany)
Blutengel chronology
Child of Glass
(1999)
Seelenschmerz
(2001)

Child of Glass is the debut album by Blutengel. A 25th anniversary edition remaster of the album was released with a bonus disc of rare tracks. [1]

Contents

Track listing

Child of Glass
No.TitleLength
1."Introduction"1:16
2."Beauty of Suffering"6:11
3."Goddess of Lies"7:38
4."Weg zu Mir"6:39
5."Das Blut der Ewigkeit"4:52
6."My Time"5:25
7."Desire"3:03
8."Du tanzt"5:48
9."Leave the World"5:53
10."No God"7:12
11."Warriors of Destiny"6:58
12."Suicide"5:54
13."Demon of Temptation"4:48
14."Footworship"2:22
Child of Glass (25th Anniversary Edition) CD2
No.TitleLength
1."Love"5:24
2."Black Roses (Single Edit V. 2)"4:47
3."Die With You (Still Suffering Remix)"4:40
4."Black Roses (Opposite Sex)"4:53
5."Black Roses (White Light Version)"5:59

Info

"Love" was an unreleased track from the Child of Glass recording sessions, which was later released on the 1998 compilation Awake The Machines Vol.2

Nina Bendigkeit left the band after the album release to become a photographer and was replaced by Gini Martin in 2001.

A 2015 rework of Weg zu Mir was released on the In Alle Ewigkeit EP as a teaser for Nemesis: The Best of & Reworked. [2]

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References

  1. "Out of Line Shop Blutengel - Child of Glass (25th Anniversary Edition) - 2CD Out of Line Shop".
  2. "Out of Line Shop in Alle Ewigkeit Out of Line Shop". Archived from the original on 2015-10-31. Retrieved 2015-10-31.