Heart of Darkness (album)

This article is about the Grave Digger album. For other albums with similar titles, see Heart of Darkness (disambiguation).
Heart of Darkness
Studio album by Grave Digger
Released April 3, 1995
Genre Heavy metal, power metal, thrash metal
Length 67:25
Label GUN Records
Producer Chris Boltendahl & Uwe Lulis
Grave Digger chronology

The Reaper
(1994)		 Heart of Darkness
(1995)		 Tunes of War
(1996)

Heart of Darkness is sixth studio album by Grave Digger. They showed a much darker and more aggressive sound with this release than any of their previous albums. All of the songs have dark, lyrical concepts such as hate, darkness, death, shadows, betrayal, etc.

Titletrack is inspired by film Apocalypse Now.

Track listing

All songs by Chris Boltendahl, Tomi Göttlich, Uwe Lulis except where noted.

  1. "Tears of Madness" (Chris Boltendahl, Uwe Lulis, Rudi Kronenberger) – 2:09
  2. "Shadowmaker" – 5:40
  3. "The Grave Dancer" – 5:02
  4. "Demon's Day" – 7:30
  5. "Warchild" – 6:09
  6. "Heart of Darkness" – 11:57
  7. "Hate" – 4:24
  8. "Circle of Witches" – 7:43
  9. "Black Death" – 5:41
  10. "My Life" – 5:08
  11. "Dolphin's Cry" – 6:01

The last two tracks are only available on the DigiPack edition limited to 6666 copies.

Track listing Japan Edition (BVCP-819)

  1. "Tears of Madness" – 2:09
  2. "Shadowmaker" – 5:40
  3. "The Grave Dancer" – 5:02
  4. "Demon's Day" – 7:30
  5. "Warchild" – 6:09
  6. "Heart of Darkness" – 11:57
  7. "Hate" – 4:24
  8. "Circle of Witches" – 7:43
  9. "Black Death" – 5:41
  10. "Dolphin's Cry" – 6:01
  11. "Don't Bring Me Down" – 5:35

Album line-up