Woods IV: The Green Album

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Woods 4: The Green Album
Woods 4 Green Album Cover Art.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 13th, 2009
RecordedJune–July 2009, Stereo Soul Studios, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Genre Doom metal, melodic black metal, neofolk
Length78:26
Label Practical Art, Earache
Producer Miguel Gauthier, David Gold
Woods of Ypres chronology
Independent Nature 2002–2007
(2009)
Woods 4: The Green Album
(2009)
Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Terrorizer 6/10 [3]

Woods 4: The Green Album is the third full-length album and fourth studio release by Ontario blackened doom metal band Woods of Ypres. It is the band's only release to feature guitarist Bryan Belleau, the only full album to feature Evan and Shane Madden on bass and drums, and the only full-length Woods of Ypres release to not feature frontman David Gold on drums. It is the band's only full-length album to be released on Gold's final independent label Practical Art Records, and its March 2011 reissue through Earache Records marked their debut on that label as well. A music video (the band's last) was released for the song "I Was Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery". A limited run of 1,000 copies of Woods IV also included a bonus album: Slaughter of the Seoul, the final album by South Korean death metal band Necramyth, who Gold drummed for at the time. [4]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Shards of Love"5:19
2."Everything I Touch Turns to Gold (Then to Coal)"5:03
3."By the Time You Read This (I Will Already Be Dead)"6:30
4."I Was Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery"7:58
5."Dirty Window of Opportunity: "Can You Get Here in 10 Days?""5:14
6."...And I Am Pining (For You)"8:15
7."Wet Leather"4:30
8."Suicide Cargoload (Drag That Weight)"4:04
9."Halves and Quarters"2:25
10."You Are Here with Me (In This Sequence of Dreams)"1:41
11."Retrosleep in the Morning Calm"3:25
12."Don't Open the Wounds/Skywide Arm Spread"4:58
13."Natural Technologies"4:54
14."Mirror Reflection & the Hammer Reinvention"7:03
15."To Long Life in the 'Limbo Union'"4:08
16."Move On! (The Woman Will Always Leave the Man)"2:59
Total length:78:26
Limited edition bonus disc: Necramyth - Slaughter of the Seoul
No.TitleLength
1."The Mandala with Thousand Arms"2:42
2."Rotten Truth"4:23
3."Behind the Mask of Sin"4:48
4."Man's Fate"4:30
5."444 Pagan Ways to..."5:36
6."Nymphonic Queen of Blood"5:59
7."VI Heaven III Calyx IV Anthem"1:29
8."Painless Civilization"4:15
9."Ravenouz Ritual"4:44
10."Daunt"10:45
Total length:49:11

Personnel

Woods of Ypres
Additional personnel

Slaughter of the Seoul

Necramyth
Additional personnel

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