Schattenreiter

Studio album by Tanzwut

Released

April 7, 2006

Recorded

2006

Genre

Industrial metal
Medieval metal

Length

33:40 (CD 1)
40:51 (CD 2)
54:59 (CD 2 with video)
74:31 (both CDs)
88:39 (CDs with video)

Label

PICA Music

Tanzwut chronology

Ihr Wolltet Spass
(2003)

Schattenreiter
(2006)

Weiße Nächte
(2011)

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Schattenreiter is the fourth full-length studio album by the German industrial rock/medieval metal band, Tanzwut. Schattenreiter was released on April 7, 2006 by PICA Music as a two-CD digipack. The album marks their newfound sound, which incorporates a more down-tuned use of guitars, darker atmospheres and harsher vocals at times than their previous albums, making them lean towards industrial metal.

The album is eclectic in nature, ranging all the way from industrial metal with "Schattenreiter", thrash metal with "Geisterstunde", and even rockabilly with "Im Tiefen Gras" to the gothic-influenced "Spieler" with many songs emanating a dance music feel to them.^[3] On the second CD, the song "Toccata" is a reworked version of a J.S. Bach composition which was recorded in a church in Berlin.^[3]

Track listing

CD 1

"Schattenreiter" − 4:22
"Der Arzt" − 4:12
"Im Tiefen Gras" − 3:17
"Endlich" − 3:23
"Dein Zweites Gesicht" − 4:21 (Extra vocals by Melanie Wiedemann)
"Geisterstunde" − 2:41
"Spieler" − 3:55
"Seelenverkäufer" − 3:41
"Immer Noch Wach" − 3:48 (featuring Schandmaul)

(Extra bagpipe by Birgit Muggenthaler)
(Violin by Anna Kränzlein)
(Extra vocals by Thomas Lindner)

CD 2

"Intro" − 0:57
"Toccata" − 4:00 (Organ by Dr. Hanno Fierdag, extra vocals by Melanie Wiedemann)
"Der Bote" − 4:35
"Versuchung" − 5:26
"Vulkan" − 3:56
"Kaltes Grauen" − 4:10
"Du Sagst" − 3:35
"Wieder am Riff" − 4:13
"Gefangen" − 4:18
"Signum Ignitum" − 5:30
Video: Tanzwut Live in Moskau 2005 − 14:08

Credits

Band