The Prestige (album)

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The Prestige
Illdisposed - The Prestige.jpg
Studio album by
Released28 March 2008 (2008-03-28)
RecordedNovember 2007 at AB Studio
Genre Death metal
Length40:27
Label AFM
Producer Peter "Ziggy" Siegfredsen
Illdisposed chronology
Burn Me Wicked
(2006)
The Prestige
(2008)
To Those Who Walk Behind Us
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Lords of Metal(95/100) [1]
Metal TempleStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

The Prestige is the eighth album by Danish death metal band Illdisposed.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Let Go" – 1:08
  2. "The Tension" – 3:53
  3. "Weak Is Your God" – 3:48
  4. "Working Class Zero" – 3:41
  5. "A Song of Myself" – 3:33
  6. "Like Cancer" – 3:46
  7. "Love Is Tasted Bitter" – 3:33
  8. "She Knows" – 3:12
  9. "A Child Is Missing" – 3:28
  10. "The Key to My Salvation" – 3:15
  11. "... Your Devoted Slave" – 3:30
  12. "Ich Bin Verloren in Berlin" – 3:34
  13. "Purity of Sadness" – 3:27*
  14. "Now We're History" – 5:03*
  15. "I Believe In Me" – 5:36*

Personnel

Trivia

In April 2008, Illdisposed announced through their MySpace blog that all royalties for the song "Like Cancer" had been donated to The Danish Cancer Society. [3]

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