Storm of the Light's Bane

Storm of the Light's Bane
Studio album by Dissection
Released November 17, 1995
Recorded March 17–30, 1995 at
Hellspawn/Unisound
Genre Melodic black metal[1]
Length 43:16
Label Nuclear Blast Records
Producer Dissection
Dissection chronology
The Somberlain
(1993)		 Storm of the Light's Bane
(1995)		 Where Dead Angels Lie
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Storm of the Light's Bane is the 1995 album release by Swedish black/death metal band Dissection. That same year, Nuclear Blast released a Europe exclusive special digipak version of the album limited to 500 copies, which upon unfolding formed the shape of a cross with the song's lyrics printed on the sleeves.

This would be the band's last full length album before Nödtveidt's 1997 incarceration for felony murder.

It was re-released in 2002 again as a digipak (catalogue number: NB 646-2), this time with the 1997 EP, Where Dead Angels Lie as bonus tracks. The album was re-released once again in 2006 by The End Records in a two-disc set, and includes the Where Dead Angels Lie EP, an unreleased EP from 1994 featuring two songs from the album, and an "alternate mix" version of the full album, all remastered from the original master tapes by Håkan Åkesson at Cutting Room, Stockholm, and packaged in a slipcase. This version is touted as the "Ultimate Reissue". The Japanese edition features the bonus track The Feathers Fell as track 5, in between Where Dead Angels Lie and Retribution - Storm of the Light's Bane.

As with the first album, Kristian Wåhlin did the cover art.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "At the Fathomless Depths" (Nödtveidt) – 1:56
  2. "Night's Blood" (Nödtveidt/Zwetsloot) – 6:41
  3. "Unhallowed" (Nödtveidt/Norman/Särkkä) – 7:28
  4. "Where Dead Angels Lie" (Nödtveidt) – 5:53
  5. "Retribution - Storm of the Light's Bane" (Nödtveidt/Zwetsloot) – 4:51
  6. "Thorns of Crimson Death" (Nödtveidt/Norman) – 8:06
  7. "Soulreaper" (Nödtveidt/Norman) – 6:56
  8. "No Dreams Breed in Breathless Sleep" (Alexandra Balogh) – 1:26

2002 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Where Dead Angels Lie" (Demo Version. Originally released on "War Compilation" compilation album) – 6:11
  2. "Elisabeth Bathory" (Tormentor Cover. Originally released on "War Compilation" compilation album) – 5:06
  3. "Antichrist" (Slayer Cover. Originally released on "Slatanic Slaughter" compilation album) – 2:45
  4. "Feather's Fell" (from the Japanese issue of "Storm of the Light's Bane" album) – 0:53
  5. "Son Of Mourning" (from the Japanese issue of The Somberlain album) – 3:14

2006 reissue bonus disc track listing

  1. "At the Fathomless Depths" – 2:00
  2. "Night's Blood" – 6:43
  3. "Unhallowed" – 7:31
  4. "Where Dead Angels Lie" – 5:57
  5. "Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane" – 4:51
  6. "Feathers Fell" – 0:54
  7. "Thorns Of Crimson Death" – 8:07
  8. "Soulreaper" – 6:56
  9. "No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep" – 1:32
  10. "Night's Blood" – 7:14
  11. "Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane" – 5:12
  12. "Elisabeth Bathori" (Tormentor Cover) – 5:05
  13. "Where Dead Angels Lie" (Demo Version) – 6:10
  14. "Antichrist" (Slayer Cover) – 2:44
  15. "Son Of The Mourning" – 3:13

Tracks 1-9: "Storm of the Light's Bane" unreleased alternative mix '95;
Tracks 10, 11: Unreleased demo '94;
Tracks 12-15: "Where Dead Angels Lie" MCD '96 remastered original mixes.

Personnel

Dissection

Additional Musicians

Production

References

  1. ^ York, William. "((( Storm of the Light's Bane > Overview )))". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r230901. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 
  2. ^ Allmusic review

Further reading

Dissection
Studio albums
The Somberlain · Storm of the Light's Bane · Reinkaos
Demos & EPs