Midvinterblot (album)

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Midvinterblot
Midvinterblot album.jpg
Studio album by Unleashed
Released 2006 (2006)
Genre Death metal
Length46:29
Label SPV/Steamhammer
Unleashed chronology
Sworn Allegiance
(2004) Sworn Allegiance2004
Midvinterblot
(2006)
Hammer Battalion
(2008) Hammer Battalion2008
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Midvinterblot is the eighth studio album by the Swedish death metal band Unleashed. It was released in 2006 by Steamhammer Records (a division of SPV Records).

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.

SPV GmbH German music label

SPV GmbH is an independent German record label.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Blood of Lies"2:39
2."This Is Our World Now"3:21
3."We Must Join With Him"4:00
4."Midvinterblot"2:59
5."In Victory or Defeat"2:40
6."Triumph of Genocide"3:13
7."The Avenger"3:14
8."Salvation for Mankind"2:54
9."Psycho Killer"2:16
10."The Witch"3:18
11."I Have Sworn Allegiance"2:41
12."Age of the Warrior"3:35
13."New Dawn Rising"2:49
14."Loyalty and Pride"3:09
15."Valhalla Awaits"3:35
Total length:46:29

The song "Age of the Warrior" is made with the titles of all Unleashed albums previous to Midvinterblot: Where No Life Dwells , Across the Open Sea , Shadows in the Deep , Victory , Warrior , Hell's Unleashed , and Sworn Allegiance .

<i>Where No Life Dwells</i> album by Unleashed

Where No Life Dwells is the debut album by the Swedish death metal band Unleashed. It was released in 1991 by Century Media Records, and was produced by Waldemar Sorychta, who would go on to produce more Century Media acts such as Lacuna Coil.

<i>Across the Open Sea</i> 1993 studio album by Unleashed

Across the Open Sea is the third studio album by the Swedish death metal band, Unleashed. It was released in 1993 on Century Media Records. It was produced by the band itself.

<i>Shadows in the Deep</i> 1992 studio album by Unleashed

Shadows in the Deep is the second album by the Swedish death metal band Unleashed. It was released in 1992 by Century Media Records.

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