- Before the Bleeding Sun
Infobox Album
Name = Before the Bleeding Sun
Type = studio
Artist =Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Genre =Melodic death metal Symphonic metal
Length = 43.08
Released =April 21 2006
Label =Spinefarm
Recorded = Tico-Tico Studio (Kemi, Finland) 2005 by Ahti Kortelainen & EToS and Note-On Studio (Kuopio, Finland), 2005 by Janne Tolsa |
Mixed = Finnvox Studios (Helsinki, Finland) February 2006 by Mikko Karmila
Reviews =
* [http://soundofmetal.se/ Sound Of Metal] Rating-10|3.5 [http://soundofmetal.se/index.php?page=eternaltearsofsorrowbeforethebleedingsunreview link]
* [http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showreview.php?id=7755 Lords of Metal] 84/100
Last album = "A Virgin and a Whore "
(2001)
This album = "Before the Bleeding Sun"
(2006)Before the Bleeding Sun is the fifth studio album released by the Finnish
melodic death metal bandEternal Tears of Sorrow . The recording was started in 2005, after the band came back together and reforged their line-up. The album counts guest performances fromMarco Hietala (Tarot andNightwish ), Jarmo Kylmänen, Sfinx (Ram-Zet ) andTony Kakko (Sonata Arctica ).The album is hailed for being attractive to both the symphonic and death metal scene.
According to the band, "The album is damn heavy but still more diverse and more melodic than any of our previous albums. The whole process has rarely been so easy and rewarding for us before, all the pieces really clicked together this time". [http://www.last.fm/user/goashem/journal/2006/01/26/65779/]
Trivia
* This is the third EToS album that included material from two recording sessions.
Sinner's Serenade was recorded in July 1996 but also included material from theirBard's Burial demo tape (recorded in October 1994).A Virgin and a Whore was recorded in May 2001 but one of its songs (Last One for Life) was recorded in December 2000. "Before the Bleeding Sun" was recorded in two sessions, in spring 2005 and in December 2005-January 2006.
* This is the first EToS album that was recorded in two different studios (excluding some random recordings on previous albums). Keyboards were recorded by Janne Tolsa, a member of the band, at his Note On Studios - the rest of the instruments were recorded at Tico-Tico Studios.
* During the writing and recording processes for this album, the band also had a blog "Studio Diary Blog - The Making of the Fifth Album". [http://www.eternaltears.info/blog/]Track listing
# "Sweet Lilith of My Dreams" – 4:51
# "Another Me" – 3:52
# "Red Dawn Rising" – 5:06
# "Upon the Moors" – 4:48
# "Sakura No Rei" – 2:12
# "Sinister Rain" – 5:41
# "Lost Rune of Thunder" – 4:03
# "Tar Still Flows" – 3:55
# "Angelheart, Ravenheart (Act I: Before the Bleeding Sun)" – 8:40Credits
Band members
* Altti Veteläinen − vocals,
bass guitar
* Jarmo Puolakanaho − guitar
* Risto Ruuth −lead guitar
* Janne Tolsa − keyboards
* Petri Sankala − drumsGuest appearances
*
Jarmo Kylmänen − vocals (on tracks: 3, 5, 6 and 9)
* Miriam Elisabeth "Sfinx" Renvåg − vocals (on tracks: 5, 6 and 9)
*Marco Hietala −backing vocals (on tracks: 3, 5, 6 and 9)
*Tony Kakko − backing vocals (on tracks: 3 and 9)
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