Thousand Swords

Infobox Album
Name = Thousand Swords
Type = studio
Artist = Graveland


Released = 1995
Recorded = December 1994 at Tuba Studio, Wroc³aw , Poland "in the days of eternal winter & frozen nightof full moon, at the gates of a new era."
Genre = Black metal, Folk metal, Viking metal
Length = 46:54
Label = Lethal Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Carpathian Wolves" (1994)
This album = "Thousand Swords" (1995)
Next album = "Following the Voice of Blood" (1997)

"Thousand Swords" is the second full length album by Black metal band Graveland. This release showed a progression in Graveland's sound from raw Black metal to Black metal with Folk and Viking metal influence to it. In 1995, the album was re-released by Isengard Distribution with a different cover. In 1999, it was re-released again by No Colours Records with a different album cover. In 2001, it was re-released again by No Colours Records on CD and vinyl. The CD version had the logo in red and the vinyl version had a red logo. The CD and vinyl versions had different covers from each other.

Track listing

# "Intro" - 1:35
# "Blood of Christians on My Sword" - 8:05
# "Thousand Swords" - 6:32
# "The Dark Battlefield" - 7:57
# "The Time of Revenge" - 4:50
# "Born for War" - 8:31
# "Black Metal War" - 1:42
# "To Die in Fight" - 5:41
# "Outro" - 2:01

Personnel

*Rob "Darken" Fudali - All music, except "Intro" by Karcharoth, and lyrics