Seediq Bale

Infobox Album
Name = Seediq Bale
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = ChthoniC


Cover size =
Caption = "Seediq Bale Album Cover" (English version)
Released = October, 2005 (TW)
November, 2006 (US)
February, 2007 (EU, JP)
Recorded = Borsing Recording Studio, Denmark, 2005
Genre = Melodic black metal
Length = 43:35
Language =
Label = Down Port Music
TRA Music
Producer = ChthoniC, Jan Borsing
Reviews = *411mania.com (6.5/10) [http://www.411mania.com/music/album_reviews/60313/ChthoniC----Seediq-Bale-Review.htm link]
*allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wvfrxq9dldae~T10 link]
*Blogcritics Rating|3.5|5 [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/07/21/235621.php link]
*"Stylus Magazine" (B) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/chthonic/seediq-bale.htm link]
*TransformOnline (favourable) [http://www.transformonline.com/music/reviews/005438.php link]
Compiled by =
Last album = "Relentless Recurrence"
(2002)
This album = "Seediq Bale"
(2005)
Next album = "ChthoniC Anthology"
(2006)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Type = Album
Upper caption = Alternate cover


Lower caption = Signed Copy of "Seediq Bale" (English version), available at Ozzfest 2007

"Seediq Bale" is ChthoniC's (a Taiwanese black metal band) fourth studio album, and the first to receive full promotion and release outside of Asia. It was positively reviewed by several websites and magazines, ^{[http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=92216&PHPSESSID=6c3e4344f72c5981d138b5a33e3ed5a7] , [http://www.maelstrom.nu/ezine/complete_iss50.htm?osCsid=931b4d76e00780a192d6362b8dd47879] , [http://www.beowolfproductions.com/MusicReviewsNov06.html]} and boosted them into several popular magazines such as Terrorizer, as well as onto the lineups for both Ozzfest and Wacken Open Air.

The album featured session drummer Reno Kiilerich, formerly of Dimmu Borgir, and Sandee Chen Shan-Ni, a Taiwanese singer, on female backing vocals. The English language versions of the album fail to mention these members.

The English language version includes three video tracks at the beginning of the disc: "Indigenous Laceration," "Quasi Putrefaction" and "Bloody Gaya Fulfilled."

Track listing

Taiwanese Version

#"岩木之子" – 4:35
#"黥面卸" – 4:03
#"忿燃戰靈封" – 1:03
#"大出草" – 6:39
#"泣神" – 5:55
#"叢屍繫冥河" – 5:35
#"虹橋赴" – 4:59
#"川中島之禁" – 3:49
#"半屍橫氣山林" – 6:57

English Version

#Video Data File
#Music Video of Indigenous Laceration
#Music Video of Quasi Putrefaction
#Live Video of Bloody Gaya Fulfilled
#"Progeny of Rmdax Tasing" – 4:35
#"Indigenous Laceration" – 4:03
#"Enthrone" – 1:03
#"Bloody Gaya Fulfilled" – 6:39
#"The Gods Weep" – 5:55
#"Where the Utux Ancestors Wait" – 5:35
#"Exultant Suicide" – 4:59
#"Banished Into Death" – 3:49
#"Quasi Putrefaction" – 6:57

Credits

Taiwanese Version

*Freddy Lim – vocals, erhu
*Jesse Liu – guitar
*Reno Kiilerich – drums
*Doris Yeh – bass
*Roger (Su-Nung) – erhu
*Ambrosia – keyboard
*Sandee Chen Shan-Ni – backing vocals
*Jan Borsing – sound engineer

English version

*Freddy, Left Face of Maradou – vocals
*Jesse, the Infernal – guitar
*Doris, Thunder Tears – bass, backing vocals
*Dani, Azathothian Hands – drums
*Su-Nung, the Bloody String – erhu
*CJ, Dispersed Fingers – keyboard
*Jan Borsing – sound engineer