Deep Tracts of Hell

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Deep Tracts of Hell
Aura noir - deep tracts of hell cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1998
RecordedJuly 1998
Genre Black metal, thrash metal
Length37:08
Label Hammerheart Records
Producer Aura Noir and Kristoffer Rygg
Aura Noir chronology
Black Thrash Attack
(1996)
Deep Tracts of Hell
(1998)
The Merciless
(2004)

Deep Tracts of Hell is the second studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Aura Noir.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Deep Tracts of Hell" – 1:57
  2. "Released Damnation" – 4:22
  3. "Swarm of Vultures" – 2:45
  4. "Blood Unity" – 4:47
  5. "Slasher" – 3:29
  6. "Purification of Hell" – 2:45
  7. "The Spiral Scar" – 4:26
  8. "The Beautiful, Darkest Path" – 4:31
  9. "Broth of Oblivion" – 4:40
  10. "To Wear the Mark" – 3:26

Personnel

Aura Noir

Production and Engineering

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