Lights Out (Graveyard album)

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Lights Out
Graveyard Lights.jpeg
Studio album by
Released26 October 2012 / 5 November 2012
RecordedMay – August 2012
Genre Hard rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock
Label Stranded Rekords/Nuclear Blast
Producer Don Alsterberg
Graveyard chronology
Hisingen Blues
(2011)
Lights Out
(2012)
Innocence & Decadence
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 7/10 [3]
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Lights Out is the third full-length studio album by Swedish hard rock band Graveyard. [5] It was released on 26 October 2012.

Contents

Release

Graveyard revealed an artwork for their album cover on 20 August 2012. [6] An interactive teaser video was released by the group via YouTube on 22 October 2012. [7]

Track listing

  1. An Industry of Murder (4:02)
  2. Slow Motion Countdown (5:35)
  3. Seven Seven (2:33)
  4. The Suits, the Law & the Uniforms (4:50)
  5. Endless Night (2:46)
  6. Hard Times Lovin' (4:27)
  7. Goliath (2:49)
  8. Fool In the End (3:31)
  9. 20/20 (Tunnel Vision) (5:00)

Charts

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