Grace Submerged

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Grace Submerged
OctaviaSperati GraceSubmerged.jpg
Studio album by
Released21 May 2007
Recorded2006/2007
Genre Gothic metal, doom metal
Length37:51
Label Candlelight Records
Producer Herbrand Larsen
Octavia Sperati chronology
Winter Enclosure
(2005)
Grace Submerged
(2007)

Grace Submerged, the second and final album by Norwegian doom/gothic metal band Octavia Sperati, was released in May 2007 via Candlelight Records.

Contents

Background

Grace Submerged was produced by Herbrand Larsen, former keyboardist of extreme metal band Enslaved. Ivar Bjørnson of the same band made an appearance on the album, co-writing "Dead End Poem".

The album features an interpretation of the Phil Lynott-penned "Don't Believe A Word", which Terrorizer Magazine called "a chilling ballad". Krister Dreyer ("Morfeus") plays the piano and keyboards in that song and the samples in "Submerged".

The song "Moonlit" was released as a music video.

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Guilty Am I"S. WergelandG. Losnegaard4:31
2."Moonlit"S. WergelandG. Losnegaard5:06
3."Going North"S. WergelandT.C. Johansen4:00
4."Don't Believe A Word" (Thin Lizzy cover) P. Lynott P. Lynott3:07
5."...And The World Froze"S. WergelandB. Myklebust4:14
6."The Final Rest"S. WergelandB. Myklebust3:25
7."Deprivation"S. WergelandT.C. Johansen4:15
8."Provenance Of Hate"S. WergelandG. Losnegaard3:45
9."Dead End Poem" I. Bjørnson H. Larsen, S. Wergeland3:34
10."Submerged"Instrumental Morfeus, T. Midtgaard1:54
Total length:37:51

Personnel

Octavia Sperati

Additional musicians

Production and Engineering

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