Firewood (album)

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Firewood
ArtistWitchcraftAlbumFirewood.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 8, 2005
Genre Doom metal
Neo-psychedelia
Hard rock
Stoner metal
Psychedelic folk
Length45:30
Label Rise Above Records
Candlelight Records
Leaf Hound Records
Producer Witchcraft
Witchcraft chronology
Witchcraft
(2004)
Firewood
(2005)
If Crimson Was Your Colour
(2006)
Professional ratings
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Firewood is the second album from the Swedish doom metal band Witchcraft. The album was released in 2005 by Rise Above Records. At roughly 8:50 in to the last track "Attention!", there is a cover of the Pentagram song "When the Screams Come". The vinyl edition does not include "When the Screams Come", but does include a bonus track entitled "The Invisible". This track also appears on the Japanese version released by Leaf Hound Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Chylde of Fire" (Pelander) – 2:50
  2. "If Wishes Were Horses" (Pelander) – 3:16
  3. "Mr Haze" (Pelander) – 3:41
  4. "Wooden Cross (I Can't Wake the Dead)" (Pelander) – 4:46
  5. "Queen of Bees" (Pelander) – 5:13
  6. "Merlin's Daughter" (Pelander) – 1:32
  7. "I See a Man" (Pelander) – 3:59
  8. "Sorrow Evoker" (Pelander) – 5:44
  9. "You Suffer" (Pelander) – 2:43
  10. "The Invisible" (Pelander) - 4:59 (vinyl/Japan only bonus track)
  11. "Attention!/When the Screams Come" (Pelander/Liebling) – 11:40

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