Winter Hours (album)

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Winter Hours
Winter Hours album cover.jpg
Album cover artwork by Thomas Hooper
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2009
Genre Avant-garde metal, post-metal, black metal
Length37:03
Label Relapse Records CD, LP
(RR7021)
Producer Mike Hill
Tombs chronology
Winter Hours
(2009)
Fear Is the Weapon
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Exclaim! (favorable) [2]
Pitchfork 7.1 [3]
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Winter Hours is the debut full-length studio album from American metal band Tombs, released on February 17, 2009, through Relapse Records in CD, LP and digital download formats. [1]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Gosssamer"5:33
2."Golden Eyes"3:00
3."Beneath the Toxic Jungle"4:32
4."The Great Silence"4:31
5."Story of a Room"2:06
6."The Divide"3:37
7."Merrimack"3:56
8."Filled with Secrets"5:24
9."Seven Stars the Angel of Death"3:35
10."Old Dominion"1:31
Total length:37:03

Personnel

Tombs

Production

Art

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