Stronghold (album)

Infobox Album|
Name = Stronghold
Type = studio
Artist = Summoning

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Released = May 11 1999
Length = 64:21
Label = Napalm Records
Genre = Symphonic Black metal
Producer = Summoning
Reviews =
*The Metal Observer rating-10|9.0 [http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=7638 link]
Last album = "Nightshade Forests"
(1997)
This album = "Stronghold"
(1999)
Next album = "Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame"
(2001)

"Stronghold" is the fourth full length album by Summoning. This album marked a change in the sound of Summoning as it was much more "guitar orientated with more compact keyboard-melodies" [ [http://www.summoning.info/Content.php?section=releases&show=title,date,imageLink,content&filter=id_releasetypes,1 Summoning's Official website] ] . Their lyrics tended to drift away from Tolkien-related subjects on this album. 'Where Hope and Daylight Die' features Tania Borsky on lead vocals, who is Protector's ex-girlfriend and a former Die Verbannten Kinder Evas member.

This album is also the first Summoning album to feature audio-clips; the clips used on this album were from the movies Braveheart and Legend. [ [http://www.summoning.info/Content.php?section=releases&show=title,date,imageLink,content&filter=id_releasetypes,1 Summoning's Official website] ]

Track listing

# "Rhûn"
# "Long Lost to Where No Pathway Goes"
# "The Glory Disappears"
# "Like Some Snow-white Marble Eyes"
# "Where Hope and Daylight Die"
# "The Rotting Horse on the Deadly Ground"
# "The Shadow Lies Frozen on the Hills"
# "The Loud Music of the Sky"
# "A Distant Flame Before the Sun"

Credits

*Protector - Vocals, guitars, keyboards
*Silenius - Vocals, keyboards
*Tania Borsky - Vocals on 5

References