Winds Devouring Men

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Winds Devouring Men
Winds Devouring Men cover
Studio album by Elend
Released 2003
Recorded The Fall
Genre Neoclassical
Length 60:20, 65:38
Label Holy Records, Prophecy Productions, Goimusic
Elend chronology
The Umbersun
(1998)
Winds Devouring Men
(2003)
Sunwar the Dead
(2004)


Winds Devouring Men is the fifth album by neoclassical band Elend. It is the first album in what is to be the five-part Winds Cycle. The special edition was released in a digipak with a bonus track called Silent Slumber: A God That Breeds Pestilence.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Poisonous Eye" – 6:55
  2. "Worn Out With Dreams" – 5:43
  3. "Charis" – 5:58
  4. "Under War-Broken Trees" – 5:36
  5. "Away from Barren Stars" – 7:28
  6. "Winds Devouring Men" – 4:38
  7. "Vision Is All That Matters" – 5:59
  8. "The Newborn Sailor" – 5:45
  9. "The Plain Masks of Daylight" – 5:54
  10. "A Staggering Moon" – 6:10
  11. "Silent Slumber: A God that Breeds Pestilence" – 5:18*

* Bonus track on special edition

[edit] Musicians

  • Klaus Amann - trumpet, horn, trombone
  • Nathalie Barbary - soprano
  • Shinji Chihara - violin, viola
  • David Kempf - violin, solo violin
  • Esteri Rémond - soprano

All other instruments and vocals, sound-design and programming by Iskandar Hasnawi, Sébastien Roland and Renaud Tschirner. Industrial landscapes and noises captured by Simon Eberl and Renaud Tschirner, designed and programmed by Iskandar Hasnawi.

Elend
Discography
Officium Tenebrarum: Leçons de Ténèbres - Les Ténèbres du Dehors - The Umbersun
Winds Cycle: Winds Devouring Men - Sunwar the Dead - A World in Their Screams
Others: Weeping Nights