Battle Metal

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Battle Metal
Battle Metal cover
Studio album by Turisas
Released July 26th 2004
Recorded January 2003 - April 2004
Genre Epic metal
Length 57:15
Label Century Media
Producer(s) Mathias Nygård
Terje Refsnes
Turisas chronology
The Heart of Turisas
(2001)
Battle Metal
(2004)


Battle Metal is the debut full-length album by the Finnish epic metal band Turisas. It was released on July 26, 2004 by Century Media.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Victoriae & Triumphi Dominus" – 1:27
  2. "As Torches Rise" – 4:51
  3. "Battle Metal" – 4:23
  4. "The Land of Hope and Glory" – 6:22
  5. "The Messenger" – 4:42
  6. "One More" – 6:50
  7. "Midnight Sunrise" – 8:15
  8. "Among Ancestors" – 5:16
  9. "Sahti-Waari" – 2:28
  10. "Prologue for R.R.R." – 3:09
  11. "Rexi Regi Rebellis" – 7:10
  12. "Katuman Kaiku" – 2:22

[edit] Credits


Additional Musicians

  • Riku Ylitalo - accordion
  • Olli Vänskä - violin
  • Emmanuelle Zoldan - female vocals


  • Produced by: Mathias Nygård and Terje Refsnes
  • Recorded at: Sound Suite Studio / France by Terje Refsnes in separate sessions between December 03 and April 04
  • Additional recordings made at: Steeltrack Studio / Finland by Georg Laakso and Mathias Nygård between January 2003 and March 2004 | drums, percussion, choirs, violin, accordion, most recorders & some acoustic guitars and vocals
  • Mixed by: Terje Refsnes and Mathias Nygård
  • Mastered by: Ulf Horbelt at Digital Mastering Studios, Marl / Germany
  • Photography by: Ossi Laakso
  • Music by: Nygård, except #5,8,9 (Nygård/Ventola) & #11 (Nygård/Wickström)
  • Lyrics by: Nygård, except: #10 by Zacharias Topelius, taken from the novel: "Surgeon's Stories - In Times of Gustav Adolf" & #11 which includes Swedish quotes taken from "The March of the Finnish Cavalry in the Thirty Years War" by Zacharias Topelius, Finnish translation by O. Manninen
  • Arrangements & programming by: Mathias Nygård