Desiderata (Madder Mortem album)

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Desiderata
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Studio album by
Released27 March 2006
Genre Progressive metal, avant-garde metal, gothic metal, doom metal
Length54:43
Label Peaceville
Madder Mortem chronology
Deadlands
(2002)
Desiderata
(2006)
Eight Ways
(2009)
Singles from Desiderata
  1. "My Name Is Silence"
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Desiderata is the fourth studio album by Norwegian metal band Madder Mortem, released on 24 April 2006 (in Norway on 27 March 2006). It was their first CD release on Peaceville Records. The album spawned a digital single, "My Name Is Silence". A video was also shot for the single.

Contents

Desiderata is the Latin word for "those things worthy of desire".

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."My Name Is Silence"3:07
2."Evasions"5:14
3."Plague on This Land"4:39
4."Dystopia"1:16
5."M for Malice"4:16
6."The Flood to Come"4:55
7."Changeling"4:25
8."Cold Stone"6:01
9."Hypnos"4:38
10."Sedition"4:05
11."Desiderata"6:07
12."Hangman"6:02

Personnel

Madder Mortem
Production

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References

  1. "CoC : Madder Mortem – Desiderata : Review".
  2. "The Metal Forge >> Review >> Madder Mortem – Desiderata".
  3. "Review: Madder Mortem – Desiderata | Sputnikmusic".