Rapture (Impaled Nazarene album)

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Rapture
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Studio album by
Released5 May 1998
Recorded1998
Genre Black metal
Length38:50
Label Osmose Productions
Producer Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene chronology
Motörpenis
(1996)
Rapture
(1998)
Nihil
(2000)

Rapture is the fifth full-length album of the Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene. [1] [2] It was released in 1998 on Osmose Productions.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Penis et Circes" – 2:35 (Music: Jani Lehtosaari)
  2. "6th Degree Mindfuck" – 2:30 (Music: Lehtosaari)
  3. "Iron Fist with an Iron Will" – 2:27 (Music & Lyrics: Mika Luttinen)
  4. "Angel Rectums Do Bleed" – 2:00 (Music: Jarmo Anttila)
  5. "We're Satan's Generation" – 2:23 (Music: Luttinen)
  6. "Goatvomit and Gasmasks" – 3:31 (Music: Reima Kellokoski)
  7. "Fallout Theory in Practice" – 2:22 (Music: Kellokoski)
  8. "Healers of the Red Plague" – 3:37 (Music: Lahtosaari)
  9. "The Pillory" – 2:01 (Lyrics & Music: Impaled Nazarene)
  10. "The Return of Nuclear Gods" – 2:58 (Music: Anttila)
  11. "Vitutation" – 3:22 (Music: Lehtosaari)
  12. "JCS" – 2:29 (Music: Kellokoski)
  13. "Inbred" – 1:37 (Music: Kellokoski)
  14. "Phallus Maleficarum" – 5:45 (Music: Anttila)

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Impaled Nazarene - Rapture Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic , retrieved 2023-09-13
  2. Sharpe-Young, Garry (2007). Metal: The Definitive Guide. Jawbone Press. p. 396. ISBN   9781906002015.