Closure: Live

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Closure: Live
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Live album by
Released28 May 2001
Recorded MetalMania festival in Katowice, Poland, 29 April 2000
Genre Gothic metal, death-doom
Length54:18
Label Massacre
Theatre of Tragedy chronology
Musique
(2000)
Closure: Live
(2001)
Assembly
(2002)

Closure: Live is a 2001 album by the Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy. [1] Recorded live at the Metal festival in Katowice 2000, the CD has ten audio tracks and, on special editions, two multimedia video tracks.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Intro/And When He Falleth" - 7:41
  2. "Der Spiegel" - 5:04
  3. "Cassandra" - 3:46
  4. "Venus" - 4:49
  5. "Black as the Devil Painteth" (Remix 2) 4:48
  6. "Siren" - 6:10
  7. "Poppæa" - 5:16
  8. "Bacchante" - 5:51
  9. "A Distance There Is" - 5:12
  10. "Der Tanz Der Schatten" - 5:40

Videos

Personnel

Theatre of Tragedy

Production

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References

  1. Theatre of Tragedy - Closure: Live Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic , retrieved 2022-08-26