Thousand Swords

Thousand Swords
Studio album by Graveland
Released 1995
Recorded

December 1994 at Tuba Studio, Wroc³aw , Poland "in the days of eternal winter & frozen night

of full moon, at the gates of a new era."
Genre Black metal
Viking metal
Length 46:54
Label Lethal Records
Graveland chronology
Carpathian Wolves
(1994)
Thousand Swords
(1995)
Following the Voice of Blood
(1997)

Thousand Swords is the second full length album by black metal band Graveland. This release showed a progression in Graveland's sound from raw black metal to black metal with folk and Viking metal influence to it. In 1995, the album was re-released by Isengard Distribution with a different cover. In 1999, it was re-released again by No Colours Records with a different album cover. In 2001, it was re-released again by No Colours Records on CD and vinyl. The CD version had the logo in red and the vinyl version had a red logo. The CD and vinyl versions had different covers from each other.

Track listing

  1. "Intro" - 1:35
  2. "Blood of Christians on My Sword" - 8:05
  3. "Thousand Swords" - 6:32
  4. "The Dark Battlefield" - 7:57
  5. "The Time of Revenge" - 4:50
  6. "Born for War" - 8:31
  7. "Black Metal War" - 1:42
  8. "To Die in Fight" - 5:41
  9. "Outro" - 2:01

Personnel