Hell's Unleashed

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Hell's Unleashed
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Studio album by Unleashed
Released April 29, 2002 (2002-04-29)
Genre Death metal
Length43:45
Label Century Media
Unleashed chronology
Warrior
(1997)
Hell's Unleashed
(2002)
Sworn Allegiance
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Hell's Unleashed is the sixth studio album by the Swedish death metal band, Unleashed. It was released in 2002 on Century Media Records, after a five-year break from recording.

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

Unleashed (band) Swedish death metal band

Unleashed is a Swedish death metal band that was formed in 1989 by Johnny Hedlund in Stockholm. Common lyrical themes found in the band's music include Viking culture, recollection of a pre-Christian world, and Norse folklore. A number of their recent songs also contain references to J. R. R. Tolkien. Unleashed is considered one of the "big four" of Swedish death metal.

Century Media Records record label

Century Media Records is a heavy metal record label with offices in the United States, Germany and London. In August 2015, Century Media was acquired by Sony Music for US $17 million.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Unleashed, unless stated otherwise

No.TitleLength
1."Don't Want to Be Born"2:54
2."Hell's Unleashed"2:15
3."Demoneater"3:54
4."Fly Raven Fly"4:15
5."Mrs. Minister"3:01
6."Joy in the Sun"3:05
7."Demons Rejoice"3:07
8."We'll Come for You"3:08
9."Triggerman"2:34
10."Dissection Leftovers"2:47
11."Peace, Piece by Piece"1:58
12."Burnt Alive"4:01
13."Your Head is Mine"3:32
14."Made in Hell"3:14
Total length:43:45

Personnel

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