Night on Bröcken

Night on Bröcken
Studio album by Fates Warning
Released 1984
Recorded 1984 - the Gallery, East Hartford, CT
Genre Heavy metal, progressive metal
Length 42:26
Label Metal Blade
Producer Fates Warning
Fates Warning chronology
Night on Bröcken
(1984)		 The Spectre Within
(1985)
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Night on Bröcken is the debut album by Fates Warning, released in September 1984. In 2002, Metal Blade Records released a remastered version of this album which contained bonus tracks.

The title of the album is apparently a reference to The Brocken, a mountain in Lower-Saxony (Germany) that is traditionally connected with witches (Walpurgis Night), most famously in Goethe's Faust. The reference becomes apparent on two original album covers that "were scrapped prior to major distribution".[2] The spelling is a typical example of a "metal umlaut".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Buried Alive" (Matheos/Arch) – 4:40
  2. "The Calling" (Matheos/Arch) – 5:04
  3. "Kiss Of Death" (Matheos/Arch) – 4:38
  4. "Night On Bröcken" (Matheos/Arduini/Arch) – 5:30
  5. "S.E.K." (Matheos) – 1:20
  6. "Misfit" (Arduini/Arch) – 5:06
  7. "Shadowfax" (Matheos) – 3:16
  8. "Damnation" (Matheos/Arch) – 6:27
  9. "Soldier Boy" (Arduini/Arch) – 6:25

2002 CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Last Call" [Misfit Demo 1984] – 5:39
  2. "The Calling" [Rehearsal 1983] – 4:36
  3. "Kiss of Death" [Live at L'Amour 1985] – 4:35
  4. "Flight of Icarus" [Rehearsal 1983] – 5:18

Line up

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Robert. Night on Bröcken allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2011-04-27.
  2. ^ Fates Warning - Island in the Stream (Night On Bröcken)
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