Seediq Bale (album)

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Seediq Bale
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Seediq Bale Album Cover (English version)
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 2005 (TW)
November 2006 (US)
February 2007 (EU, JP)
RecordedBorsing Recording Studio, Denmark, 2005
Genre Symphonic black metal [1]
Length43:35
LanguageChinese, Taiwanese, English
Label Down Port Music
TRA Music
Producer Chthonic, Jan Borsing
ChthoniC chronology
Satan's Horns
(2003)
Seediq Bale
(2005)
Pandemonium
(2007)
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Seediq Bale is the fourth studio album by Taiwanese black metal band Chthonic, released in 2005. The album was the band's first to receive full promotion and release outside of Asia, being released in November 2006 in the United States and worldwide in February 2007. It was positively reviewed by several websites and magazines, , , and boosted them into several popular magazines such as Terrorizer , as well as onto the lineups for both Ozzfest and Wacken Open Air.

Contents

The album featured session drummer Reno Kiilerich, formerly of Dimmu Borgir, and Sandee Chan, a Taiwanese singer, on female backing vocals. The English-language versions of the album fail to mention these members.

The English-language version includes three video tracks at the beginning of the disc: "Indigenous Laceration", "Quasi Putrefaction" and "Bloody Gaya Fulfilled".

Track listing

Taiwanese version
No.TitleLength
1."岩木之子"4:35
2."黥面卸"4:03
3."忿燃戰靈封"1:03
4."大出草"6:39
5."泣神"5:55
6."叢屍繫冥河"5:35
7."虹橋赴"4:59
8."川中島之禁"3:49
9."半屍橫氣山林"6:57
English version
No.TitleLength
1."Progeny of Rmdax Tasing"4:35
2."Indigenous Laceration"4:03
3."Enthrone"1:03
4."Bloody Gaya Fulfilled"6:39
5."The Gods Weep"5:55
6."Where the Utux Ancestors Wait"5:35
7."Exultant Suicide"4:59
8."Banished into Death"3:49
9."Quasi Putrefaction"6:57
Enhanced content
No.TitleLength
10."Video Data File"0:06
11."Indigenous Laceration" (music video)4:09
12."Quasi Putrefaction" (music video)6:43
13."Bloody Gaya Fulfilled" (live video)6:22

Credits

Taiwanese version

English version

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References

  1. Prato, Greg. "Seediq Blade – Chthonic". AllMusic . Retrieved February 28, 2019.