| Onwards | ||||
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| Studio album by Triosphere | ||||
| Released | 2006-2007 | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal Melodic heavy metal |
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| Label | Face Front Plastic Head Distribution Spiritual Beast |
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| Producer | Rune Stavnesli and Marius Silver Bergesen | |||
| Triosphere chronology | ||||
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Onwards is the first studio album from the Norwegian progressive heavy metal band Triosphere. It was released in Norway in 2006 by FaceFront Records and the rest of Europe in 2007 by Plastic Head Distribution. The Japanese label Spiritual Beast released the album in Asia in 2006 and in the United States in 2007.
Contents |
All music by Marius Silver Bergensen except track 7 and 8 by Silver/Haukland and track 13 by Blackie Lawless, all lyrics by Ida Haukland except track 2 by Silver, track 10 by Silver/Haukland and track 13 by Lawless.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Onwards Part I (All is Fair in Love and War?...)" | 0:26 |
| 2. | "Onwards Part II (Decadent One)" | 3:32 |
| 3. | "Trinity" | 4:53 |
| 4. | "Lament" | 3:45 |
| 5. | "Spitfire" | 3:55 |
| 6. | "The Silver Lining" | 4:32 |
| 7. | "Gunnin' for Glory" | 3:51 |
| 8. | "Sunriser" | 4:47 |
| 9. | "Twilight" | 4:21 |
| 10. | "Onwards Part III (A Sole Twin’s Search in Solitude)" | 6:13 |
| 11. | "Onwards Part IV (Retrospect, Moving Forwards in Reverse)" | 7:06 |
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length | |||||
| 12. | "Onwards Part V (Towards a New Horizon)" | 2:14 | |||||||
| 13. | "Mean Man" (W.A.S.P. cover) | 3:56 | |||||||
The album has received unanimously good reviews from metal review sites and the specialized press. In august 2009, Onwards receives the award for Metal album of the Year from "Just Plain Folks Music Organization", worlds largest independent music organization, in competition with more than 40.000 artists in all genres around the world.[1]
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Encyclopaedia Metallum | 78/100[2] |
| Heavymetal.no | [3] |
| Lords of Metal | 77/100[4] |
| The Metal Crypt | [5] |
| Pavillon 666 | [6] |
| Spirit of Metal | [7] |