Dionysos (album)

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Dionysos
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Studio album by Lux Occulta
Released Late 1997
Recorded Early to mid-1997
Genre Black metal
Length46:58
Label Metal Mind, Pagan Records
Producer Andrzej Bomba
Lux Occulta chronology
Forever Alone, Immortal
(1996)
Dionysos
(1997)
Maior Arcana: The Words That Turn Flesh into Light
(1998)

Dionysos is the second album by the Polish symphonic black metal band Lux Occulta (Latin for "Hidden Light"). The 2002 re-release of the album by Metal Mind includes the band's demo The Forgotten Arts, which can also be found on the band's Maior Arcana compilation, in its entirety as bonus material. Unlike the version on Maior Arcana, the version appended to this album retains the same running order as on the original release.

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Contents

Track listing

  1. The Birth of the Race (7:39)
  2. Blessed Be the Rain (7:22)
  3. Chalice of Lunar Blood (8:47)
  4. Nocturnal Dithyramb (6:41)
  5. Ecstasy and Terror (9:18)
  6. Upwards to Conquer Heaven (6:51)

Personnel

Lux Occulta

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