Sterling Black Icon – Chapter III – Black but Shining

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Sterling Black Icon - Chapter III - Black But Shining
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Studio album by Fragments of Unbecoming
Released March 24, 2006
Recorded Sept/Oct/Nov 2005 at Iguana, Sound Tunnel and PMT Studios
Genre Melodic death metal
Length50:30
Label Metal Blade Records
Producer Christoph Brandes
Fragments of Unbecoming
Fragments of Unbecoming chronology
Skywards - A Slyphe’s Ascension
(2004) Skywards - A Slyphe’s Ascension2004		Sterling Black Icon - Chapter III - Black But Shining
(2006)		Everhaunting Past - Chapter IV - A Splendid Retrospection
(2008)Everhaunting Past - Chapter IV - A Splendid Retrospection2008

Sterling Black Icon - Chapter III - Black But Shining is the third full-length album by the German melodic death metal band, Fragments of Unbecoming. The European release edition for Sterling Black Icon comes with an "extra noble" cardboard-box.

Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

Melodic death metal is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal. The style originated and developed in Sweden and the United Kingdom around 1993. The Swedish death metal scene did much to popularise the style, soon centering in the "Gothenburg metal” scene.

Fragments of Unbecoming is a melodic death metal band from Laudenbach, Germany. The band's guitarist Sascha Ehrich is also a renowned artist in the metal world, having designed album covers for bands such as Necrophagist. The band's name was taken from the lyrics for the Edge of Sanity song "Darkday".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Carmine Preface ~{Entrance}~" − 0:52
  2. "Sterling Black Icon" − 5:14
  3. "Weave Their Barren Path" − 4:08
  4. "Dear Floating Water" − 7:11
  5. "Breathe in the Black to See" − 7:21
  6. "Ride for a Fall" − 0:44
  7. "A Faint Illumination" − 5:49
  8. "Live for This Moment, Stay 'Til the End" − 5:59
  9. "Scythe of Scarecrow" − 4:49
  10. "Onward to the Finger of God" − 1:37
  11. "Stand the Tempest" − 4:12
  12. "Chambre Noire ~{Departure}~" − 2:30 (translated as Dark Room in French)

Personnel

Band

Death growl voice type

A death growl is a vocal style usually employed by death metal singers but also used in other heavy metal styles, such as metalcore. Death growls are sometimes criticized for their "ugliness". However, the harshness of death growls is in keeping with death metal's abrasive music style and often dark and obscene subject matter. The progressively more forceful enunciation of metal vocals has been noted from heavy metal to thrash metal to death metal.

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Acoustic guitar type of guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.

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