Plague Beasts

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Plague Beasts
Cloak of Altering - Plague Beasts.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 29, 2014 (2014-04-29)
RecordedDe Bejaarde II, Drachten, NL
Genre Avant-garde metal, black metal
Length37:11
Label Crucial Blast
Cloak of Altering chronology
NONE
(2013)
Plague Beasts
(2014)
Manifestation
(2015)
Maurice de Jong chronology
Dyodyo Asema
(2014)
Plague Beasts
(2014)
And the Light Swallowed Everything
(2014)

Plague Beasts is the third studio album by Cloak of Altering, released on April 29, 2014 by Crucial Blast. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Maurice de Jong.

No.TitleLength
1."Plague Beasts"5:20
2."White Inverted Void"5:27
3."Translucent Body Deformities"5:43
4."Chaos Magician of the Abyss"5:54
5."Ash666urA"4:39
6."Into Celestial Hell"4:48
7."Altering Forever"5:20

Personnel

Adapted from the Plague Beasts liner notes. [3]

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States 2014Crucial Blast CD

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References

  1. "Cloak of Altering: Plague Beasts > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  2. Nunziata, Francesco (May 21, 2014). "Cloak of Altering: Plague Beasts" (in Italian). Onda Rock. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  3. Manifestation (booklet). Cloak of Altering. Hagerstown, Maryland: Crucial Blast. 2014.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)