Horror Masterpiece

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Horror Masterpiece
Lord Vampyr Horror Masterpiece.jpg
Studio album by
Lord Vampyr
Released25 March 2010
Genre Industrial metal, gothic metal
Length45:25
Label Crushing Balls Records
Producer Stefano Morabito
Lord Vampyr chronology
Carpathian Tragedies
(2009)		Horror Masterpiece
(2010)		 Vampyria
(2010)

Horror Masterpiece is the third studio album by Italian extreme metal vocalist Lord Vampyr, released on 25 March 2010. Beginning with this album, Lord Vampyr abandoned the symphonic black metal style of his previous two releases, shifting to a more industrial-like tone.

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Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Lord Vampyr, except for "Take On Me" by Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy.

Take On Me 1984 single by A-ha

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Magne Furuholmen is a Norwegian musician and visual artist. Furuholmen, better known to music fans by his stage name Mags, is the keyboardist of the synthpop/rock band A-ha, and co-wrote many of the band's hits including "Take On Me", "Stay on These Roads", "Manhattan Skyline", "Cry Wolf", "Forever Not Yours", "Analogue ", and "Foot of the Mountain".

Morten Harket Norwegian musician

Morten Harket is a Norwegian vocalist and musician, best known as the lead singer of the synthpop/rock band A-ha, which released ten studio albums and topped the charts internationally after their breakthrough hit "Take On Me" in 1985. A-ha disbanded in 2010 after they played their last gig in Oslo. In 2015, after each member pursued his own artistic path, A-ha reunited to produce a new album, Cast In Steel, and perform a world tour, kicking off at Rock in Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 27 September 2015. Harket has also released six solo albums. Before joining A-ha in 1982, Harket had appeared on the Oslo club scene as the singer for blues outfit Souldier Blue.

No.TitleLength
1."Horror Masterpiece"3:22
2."Morte e Orgasmo"4:14
3."Who Is Knocking at My Door?"4:14
4."I Love My Dead Girlfriend"3:50
5."I Remember"4:09
6."Tragedy"4:11
7."Blood Fanatics"3:07
8."You Are My Hell"3:52
9."Juliette (Back from the Grave)"3:54
10."Alice in Monsterland"3:48
11."Metzengerstein"3:17
12."Take On Me" (A-ha cover)3:26
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