Liberty or Death (album)

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Liberty Or Death
Studio album by Grave Digger
Released	January 12, 2007
Recorded	Principal Studios, Germany
Genre	Heavy Metal Power Metal
Length	56:48
Label	Locomotive Records
Producer	Chris Boltendahl, Manni Schmidt & Jörg Umbreit
Grave Digger chronology
25 To Live (2005) Liberty Or Death (2007)

Liberty or Death is Grave Digger's 12th studio album. It was released on January 12, 2007 by Locomotive Records.

[edit] Track listing

All songs composed & arranged by Boltendahl/Becker/Schmidt & Katzenburg

All lyrics by Boltendahl

1. "Liberty or Death"
2. "Ocean of Blood"
3. "Highland Tears"
4. "The Terrible One"
5. "Until The Last King Died"
6. "March of the Innocent"
7. "Silent Revolution"
8. "Shadowland"
9. "Forecourt to Hell"
10. "Massada"

The Digipak-version includes the bonus track "Ship of Hope"

[edit] Miscellanea

• Vocalist Chris Boltendahl was inspired with this album by a book named "Liberty Or Death" by a Cretean writer. The book directly inspired the title song about the Greek revolution on Crete and then the theme of the rest of the album.

• Two songs deal with Germany's treatment of the Jews in the Second World War and a further two more about more Ancient Jewish history. "Ocean of Blood" tells of Moses parting the Red Sea and "Massada" tells of the siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War. "March of the Innocent" is about the Holocaust and "Ship of Hope" tells of the "Voyage of the Damned" of the SS St. Louis. "Highland Tears" deals with freedom in Scotland. "Forecourt to Hell" deals with the gladiators in the Roman Empire age. "The Terrible One" is about Ivan, the Terrible. "Until the Last King Died" is about the French Revolution. Boltendahl says that the number of songs on this subject was not intended, but that the stories were interesting on their own.1

[edit] Album line-up

• Chris Boltendahl - Vocals
• Manni Schmidt - Guitars
• Jens Becker - Bass
• Stefan Arnold - Drums
• HP Katzenburg - Keyboards

v • d • e Grave Digger Chris Boltendahl | Manni Schmidt | Jens Becker | Stefan Arnold | Hans Peter "H.P." Katzenburg | Thilo Herrmann Studio albums Heavy Metal Breakdown | Witch Hunter | War Games | The Reaper | Heart of Darkness | Tunes of War | Knights of the Cross | Excalibur | The Grave Digger | Rheingold | The Last Supper | Liberty or Death Live albums Tunes of Wacken - Live | 25 to Live EPs / Singles "For Promotion Only" | "Symphony Of Death" | "The Dark Of The Sun" | "Yesterday"