- The Smell of Rain
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Petrichor ."Infobox Album | Name = The Smell of Rain
Type =Album
Artist =Mortiis
Released =October 17 ,2001
Recorded = A Studio (Sweden), 2001
Genre =Electropop
Length = 50:54
Label =Earache Records
Producer =Håvard Ellefsen
Last album =The Stargate
This album = The Smell of Rain
Next album = The Grudge"The Smell of Rain" is the name of an album released by solo artist
Mortiis in 2001.The initial CD press run for Germany contained a bonus DVD including the 'Parasite God' video. The LP was a double gatefold with a 12" lyric insert. A remastered version was released later, as Mortiis requested. It contained four remixed songs. Initial attempts at getting the CD booklet printed as transparent layers of art and text was turned down by the label, several times. Though this was done for the next album (The Grudge) as a "Strictly Ltd Edition 'Decadent' PVC Sleeve".
The artwork was produced by Johan Hammarman.
Released in 2001 under the Earache label. This was the first album where Mortiis took the role as lead vocalist, which had previously been filled by
Sarah Jezebel Deva .Mortiis looks back on this album, and is amazed at how 'gothic' it sounds - even though it wasn't intended.Fact|date=June 2007 In the booklet, Mortiis is seen unmasked under the pseudonym of 'John Prozac'.
On the back of the album, there is a circle with symbols inside. This is a form of the 'Secret Seal of Solomon'.
Track listing
#"Scar Trek / Parasite God" – 6:02
#"Flux / Mental Maelstrom" – 6:46
#"Spirit in a Vacuum" – 4:53
#"Monolith" – 3:59
#"You Put a Hex on Me" – 5:45
#"Everyone Leaves" – 6:41
#"Marshland" – 4:43
#"Antimental" – 6:17
#"Smell the Witch" – 5:43The following tracks were remixes available on a special remastered edition released in 2002:
#"Paranoid God Pt.1 (the iconoclast mix)" – 7:00 - Brian Lustmord
#"Marshland (the excursion mix)" – 4:40 - Raven Fox
#"Monolithic dub" – 7:44 - Brian Lustmord
#"You Put a Hex on Me" – 3:51 - Tarmvred
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