Stab Wounds

Last updated
Stab Wounds
Stab Wounds.jpg
Studio album by
Released11 June 2004
RecordedFebruary – May 2004
Genre Melodic black metal
Length69:22
Label Black Attakk
Producer V.Santura
Dark Fortress chronology
Profane Genocidal Creations
(2003)
Stab Wounds
(2004)
Séance
(2006)

Stab Wounds is the third studio album by German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress which was released on 11 June 2004, through German record label Black Attackk. [1] [2] The whole layout and cover art of the booklet has been designed by Travis Smith. [3] A strictly limited 2-LP Vinyl version was released in December 2004 by the new German label Imperium Productions.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Iconoclasm Omega" - 6:41
  2. "Self Mutilation" - 6:45
  3. "Stab Wounds" - 8:11
  4. "When 1000 Crypts Awake" - 4:00
  5. "Despise the "Living"" - 5:36
  6. "A Midnight Poem" - 8:47
  7. "Rest in Oblivion" - 8:29
  8. "Vanitas...No Horizons" - 1:24
  9. "Like a Somnambulist in Daylight's Fire" - 7:52
  10. "Sleep!" - 3:16

Total playing time 69:22

Digipak bonus tracks

Vinyl bonus tracks

Personnel

Guest appearances

  1. ^ Adimiron (Angst) and Jens Rydén (Naglfar) did some of the vocals on the song Rest in Oblivion.
  2. ^ Herr Morbid (Forgotten Tomb) did some of the vocals on the song Like a Somnambulist in Daylight's Fire.

Cultural reference

The sample "Manche Menschen sagen ich bin ein Psycho... und sie haben recht, ich bin ein Psycho! Sehen Sie mich an." at the beginning of the song Self Mutilation is from the film The Sixth Sense.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fenriz</span> Norwegian musician (born 1971)

Gylve Fenris Nagell, known professionally as Fenriz, is a Norwegian musician, part-time music journalist and online radio host who is best known as being one half of the black metal duo Darkthrone, alongside Nocturno Culto. Although primarily a drummer and songwriter, he has also played bass and guitar and performed vocals for Darkthrone and several other metal bands. Fenriz is famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of metal music, his eager promotion of underground bands and the DIY ethic, and his rejection of the "showbiz side of the music industry". Fenriz was also the studio drummer for doom metal band Valhall, and has had several solo projects, including the folk black metal project Isengard and the dark ambient project Neptune Towers.

Somnambulist or The Somnambulist can refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eisregen</span> German Gothic/death metal/black metal band

Eisregen is a German Gothic/death metal/black metal band formed in 1995. The members are from Tambach-Dietharz, a village in Thuringia. Four of the band's albums are banned in Germany, with different restriction levels.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matt Heafy</span> American singer and guitarist

Matthew Kiichi Heafy is a Japanese-American musician, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for heavy metal band Trivium. He was also the lead vocalist for the band Capharnaum, along with Trivium's former producer Jason Suecof. In 2017, Heafy was voted sixth on the Ultimate Guitar list "Top 25 Greatest Modern Frontmen".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Crematory (band)</span> German metal band

Crematory is a German gothic metal band formed in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg in 1991.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dark Fortress</span> German melodic black metal band

Dark Fortress was a German melodic black metal band from Landshut formed in 1994. They released seven studio albums, a split album and a demo album. The band broke up in 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arise (Sepultura song)</span> 1991 single by Sepultura

"Arise" is Sepultura's first official single, as well as the first of three to be released from the album of the same name.

<i>Eidolon</i> (album) 2008 studio album by Dark Fortress

Eidolon is the fifth studio album by German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress. The album was released on 25 February 2008 through German record label Century Media. The album has also a digipack version. The vinyl record version was released on 14 October 2016, again by Century Media.

<i>Séance</i> (album) 2006 studio album by Dark Fortress

Séance is the fourth studio album by German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress. The album was released on 30 January 2006 through German record label Century Media Records. Alex Krull mastered the album in the Mastersound Studios and the whole layout of the booklet was designed by Travis Smith. The original album version comes with a 12-page booklet.

<i>Zerfall</i> 1998 studio album by Eisregen

Zerfall is the first studio album by German gothic/death metal/black metal band Eisregen, released through record label Last Episode in February 1998. The album was rereleased twice by German record label Massacre Records. First time, in 2004 as a compilation album of "Zerfall" and the demo "Das Ende des Weges". Second time, in August 2014, the album was rereleased both in a vinyl record format and in a remastered digipack format. The vinyl record version was limited to 500 copies and the digipack version was limited to 2,000 copies.

<i>Farbenfinsternis</i> 2001 studio album by Eisregen

Farbenfinsternis is the fourth studio album by the German gothic/death metal/black metal metal band Eisregen, released in 2001 through record label Last Episode. The album has also a digipack version released in 2001 and it was rereleased in 2007 through German record label Massacre Records. The 2007 rereleased version was in digipack format. In February 2004, the album was banned in Germany.

<i>Phoenix</i> (Agathodaimon album) 2009 studio album by Agathodaimon

Phoenix is the fifth studio album by the German symphonic black metal band Agathodaimon. The album was released on 20 March 2009 through German record label massacre records. The album also has a limited digipack version.

<i>Ylem</i> (album) 2010 studio album by Dark Fortress

Ylem is the sixth full-length studio release from German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress; and the second to feature new vocalist Morean. The album was released on 22 January 2010 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and on 25 January 2010 for the rest of Europe. It was also released on 9 February 2010 in the United States. The 25 January 2010 edition had also a digipack version.

<i>Calling the Wild</i> 2000 studio album by Doro

Calling the Wild is the seventh solo album by German hard rock singer Doro Pesch. It was released in 2000, in two different editions for the European market and the American one. For this release, Doro changed labels again, having signed contracts with SPV/Steamhammer for Germany and with Koch Records for the USA. Calling the Wild was the first album published in the US after the eponymous one in 1990. The US edition contains also remixed tracks taken from the previous Doro album Love Me in Black. "Love Me Forever" is a cover of Motörhead's song from the album 1916 of 1991. "White Wedding" is a cover of Billy Idol's hit single of 1982.

<i>Rostrot</i> 2011 studio album by Eisregen

Rostrot is the ninth studio album by German gothic/death metal/black metal band Eisregen. It was released on 9 December 2011 through record label Massacre Records. The 2011 release included two limited editions of the album: a digipack version limited to 5,000 copies and a vinyl record version limited to 500 copies.

<i>A Frail Becoming</i> 2012 studio album by Daylight Dies

A Frail Becoming is the fourth full-length album by Daylight Dies. It was released by Candlelight Records on October 9, 2012, four years after the release of the band's last album Lost to the Living.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Evocation (band)</span> Swedish death metal band

Evocation is a Swedish death metal band from Borås.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beyond the Black</span> German symphonic metal band

Beyond the Black is a German symphonic metal band formed in 2014 in Mannheim. Their debut album Songs of Love and Death became popular immediately after the release, and entered the German and Austrian national music charts.

<i>Songs of Love and Death</i> (Beyond the Black album) 2015 studio album by Beyond the Black

Songs of Love and Death is the debut studio album by the German symphonic metal band Beyond the Black. It was released on 13 February 2015 through Airforce1 Records. The album was rereleased on 7 June 2019 through Austrian record label Napalm Records.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Spirit Adrift</span> American heavy metal band

Spirit Adrift is an American heavy metal band formed in Mesa, Arizona. The project began in 2015 as the solo endeavor of Nate Garrett, and eventually grew into a full touring band. The band is now based in Austin, Texas.

References

  1. Dark Fortress - Stab Wounds, 2004-06-11, retrieved 2023-11-24
  2. "Black Attakk Records". Discogs. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  3. ">Encyclopaedia Metallum - Dark Fortress - Stab Wounds". metal-archives.com. Retrieved 2008-10-19.