The Breathing Shadow

The Breathing Shadow
Studio album by Nightingale
Released 1995 (1995)
Recorded January 1995
(Unisound)
Genre Gothic rock, progressive rock.
Length 53:31
Label Black Mark
Producer Dan Swanö
Nightingale chronology
— The Breathing Shadow
(1995)		 The Closing Chronicles
(1996)
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Encyclopaedia Metallum (82%)[1]
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The Breathing Shadow is the debut album from Nightingale. It was recorded and mixed within the span of a week by Dan Swanö alone at his Unisound studio. In this album, Nightingale did not yet consist of a band, and was simply a solo project by Dan Swanö. This is the only album of Nightingale to feature a drum machine (the other albums either feature Swanö on drums or someone else on drums). Unlike the hard rock/AOR-orientated direction of later albums, this album showcases the style of goth rock similar to The Sisters of Mercy. The songs "Nightfall Overture" and "The Dreamreader" were re-recorded on the 2004 compilation album Nightfall Overture.

Track listing

  1. "Nightfall Overture" - 8:10
  2. "Sleep..." - 4:40
  3. "The Dreamreader" - 5:24
  4. "Higher Than the Sky" - 6:15
  5. "Recovery Opus" - 2:15
  6. "The Return to Dreamland" - 3:04
  7. "Gypsy Eyes" - 3:38
  8. "Alone?" - 6:37
  9. "A Lesson in Evil" - 5:53
  10. "Eye for an Eye" - 7:22

Credits

Nightingale

References

  1. ^ Encyclopaedic Metallum