Witching Hour (The Vision Bleak album)

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Witching Hour
The Vision Bleak Witching Hour.jpg
Studio album by
Released27 September 2013
Genre Gothic metal
Length39:02
Label Prophecy Productions
Producer Martin Koller
The Vision Bleak chronology
Set Sail to Mystery
(2010)
Witching Hour
(2013)
The Kindred of the Sunset
(2016)

Witching Hour is the fifth studio album by German gothic metal band The Vision Bleak, released on 27 September 2013 through Prophecy Productions. It is a concept album based on popular fictional witches. A digipak version containing a bonus track, as well as a deluxe edition featuring three bonus tracks, were also released.

Contents

A music video for the track "The Wood Hag", entirely animated in stop motion and directed by Fursy Teyssier, was uploaded on Prophecy's official YouTube channel on September 4 to serve as a teaser. [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by The Vision Bleak.

No.TitleLength
1."Witching Hour" (instrumental)1:34
2."A Witch Is Born"4:10
3."The Blocksberg Rite"5:31
4."Cannibal Witch"6:06
5."The Wood Hag"3:57
6."Hexenmeister"4:00
7."Pesta Approaches"6:12
8."The Valkyrie"7:29
Digipak bonus track
No.TitleLength
8."The Call of the Banshee"5:02
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
8."The Call of the Banshee"5:02
10."Witchery in Forests Dark (Part I)" (instrumental)9:43
11."Witchery in Forests Dark (Part II)" (instrumental)6:22

Trivia

Personnel

The Vision Bleak

Guest musicians

Miscellaneous staff

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