| First Breath | ||||
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| Released | 12 January 1998 | |||
| Recorded | Aabenraa Studio, Denmark | |||
| Genre | Death metal | |||
| Length | 63:11 | |||
| Label | Hammerheart Records / Serious Entertainment | |||
| Producer | Jacob Hansen | |||
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First Breath is the first album by Danish extreme metal band Mercenary. With this album, the band showed their death metal roots. First Breath was recorded at the Aabenraa Studio in Denmark.
All tracks are written by Mercenary.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Symbiotic" | 4:11 |
| 2. | "World Wide Weep" | 4:41 |
| 3. | "Horizon" | 8:00 |
| 4. | "Master Game" | 5:06 |
| 5. | "Perceptive" | 6:26 |
| 6. | "Graveart" | 4:24 |
| 7. | "Next to Nothing" | 3:45 |
| 8. | "Demon8" | 6:48 |
| 9. | "Watching Me" | 4:38 |
| 10. | "Alternative Ways" | 3:52 |
| 11. | "Sister Jane" | 5:54 |
| 12. | "Supremacy" (bonus track) | 5:21 |
Guest appearances
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