Fire & Damnation

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Fire & Damnation
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Studio album by
Released6 April 2012 (2012-04-06)
Recorded2011 in Dortmund and Haltern
Genre Thrash metal
Length43:40
Label Metal Blade
Producer Waldemar Sorychta
Exumer chronology
Rising from the Sea
(1987)
Fire & Damnation
(2012)
The Raging Tides
(2016)

Fire & Damnation is the third studio album by the German thrash metal band Exumer. It was released 25 years after the band's previous album, Rising from the Sea (1987), on 6 April 2012 through Metal Blade Records. [1]

Contents

The album was engineered and produced by Waldemar Sorychta. Drums were recorded at Waldstreetsound Studio in Dortmund, all guitars and vocals were recorded at Sonarklang Studio in Haltern. Fire & Damnation was mixed by Sorychta and Dennis Koehne at Flying Pigs Studio in Schwerte.

The album features a re-recording of "Fallen Saint" from Possessed by Fire (1987).

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Fire & Damnation"Mem V. SteinRay Mensh3:16
2."Vermin of the Sky"V. SteinMensh3:16
3."The Weakest Limb"V. SteinMensh3:50
4."New Morality"V. SteinMensh3:07
5."Waking the Fire"V. SteinPaul Arakari3:13
6."Fallen Saint"V. SteinMensh3:54
7."Crushing Point"V. SteinMensh3:01
8."Devil Chaser"V. SteinMensh2:42
9."I Dare You"ArakariMensh3:40
10."Tribal Furies"V. SteinMensh3:31
Limited edition
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
11."Destructive Solution (Live)"V. SteinMensh3:12
12."A Mortal in Black (Live)"V. SteinMensh3:52
13."Xiron Darkstar (Live)"V. SteinMensh3:04

Personnel

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References

  1. Jordan Richardson (4 June 2012). "Review: Exumer – Fire & Damnation". Blinded by Sound. Retrieved 19 March 2019.