Stab Wounds

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Stab Wounds
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Studio album by
Released11 June 2004
RecordedFebruary 2004 - 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.

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  2. "Black Attakk Records". Discogs. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
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