Winter Enclosure

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Winter Enclosure
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Studio album by
Released14 June 2005
RecordedEarshot Studio, Bergen, Norway, 2003-2005
Genre Gothic metal, doom metal
Length40:37
Label Candlelight Records
Producer Octavia Sperati, Herbrand Larsen
Octavia Sperati chronology
Guilty
(2002)
Winter Enclosure
(2005)
Grace Submerged
(2007)

Winter Enclosure, the debut album by Norwegian gothic metal band Octavia Sperati was released on 14 June 2005 on the Candlelight Records label. [1]

Contents

The album was promoted with two music videos: "Lifelines of Depths" (in a second version of the already known in 2004) and "Hunting Eye", both made by the director Asle Birkeland.

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Intro"instrumentalBodil0:53
2."Lifelines of Depths"SiljeBodil5:47
3."Soundless"SiljeTrine4:29
4."Icebound"SiljeBodil3:36
5."Hymn"SiljeSilje0:44
6."Hunting Eye"SiljeSilje3:32
7."Future Is"SiljeBodil5:00
8."Below Zero"SiljeGyri5:25
9."Wasted on the Living"SiljeBodil4:31
10."Without Air (Before)"GyriGyri2:38
11."Without Air (After)"GyriGyri5:28
Total length:40:37

Personnel

Octavia Sperati

Additional musicians

Production and Engineering

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References

  1. "Octavia Sperati - Winter Enclosure". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 2011-10-02.