| Live Gothic | ||||
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| Released | 25 July 2008 | |||
| Recorded | Warsaw, Poland, 14 February 2007 | |||
| Genre | Symphonic metal | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
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| Terrorizer (Nov 2008) |   |
Live Gothic is the title of a live album recorded in Poland by Swedish symphonic metal band Therion released on 25 July 2008. The album is released on two CDs and one DVD.
Running time: 68 min
Running time: 51 min
"Drum Battle in Holland"
Live Gothic has been also released as limited edition of four LP vinyl (33⅓ rpm), gatefold cover and it has been released in 500 hand-numbered copies.
| Chart (2001) | Peak position |
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| Dutch Albums Chart | 98 [1] |
Kreator is a German thrash metal band from Essen, formed in 1982. Their current lineup consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Miland "Mille" Petrozza, drummer Jürgen "Ventor" Reil, lead guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö, and bassist Frédéric Leclercq. The band's lineup has changed multiple times over its 39-year career, most noticeably with their bassists and lead guitarists. Petrozza and Reil are the only two original members left in Kreator, though the latter had been out of the band from 1994 to 1996. Yli-Sirniö has been the lead guitarist of Kreator since 2001, while Leclercq joined in 2019 as the replacement of Christian "Speesy" Giesler, who had been a member of the band since 1994.
Celtic Frost were a Swiss extreme metal band from Zürich. They are known for their strong influence on the development of extreme metal and avant-garde metal. Formed in 1981 as Hellhammer, the band became Celtic Frost in 1984 and released their debut, Morbid Tales, that year. This was followed by To Mega Therion (1985) and the highly experimental Into the Pandemonium (1987), all of which were widely praised. Their next album Cold Lake (1988) saw a new lineup and a radical change of style, which was widely derided. After the release of Vanity/Nemesis (1990), the group disbanded. It re-formed in 2001 and released the critically acclaimed Monotheist (2006), before disbanding following frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008.
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Sign of the Hammer is the fourth album by heavy metal band Manowar, released on October 15, 1984.
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