Stronghold (Summoning album)
| Stronghold | ||||
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| Studio album by Summoning | ||||
| Released | May 11, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Atmospheric black metal | |||
| Length | 64:21 | |||
| Label | Napalm | |||
| Producer | Summoning | |||
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Stronghold is the fourth full length album by the Austrian black metal band Summoning. This album marked a change in the sound of Summoning as it was much more "guitar orientated with more compact keyboard-melodies".[1] "Where Hope and Daylight Die" features Tania Borsky, Protector's ex-girlfriend and a former member of Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, on lead vocals.
This album is the first by Summoning to feature audio-clips; the clips used on this album were from the movies Braveheart and Legend.[1]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length | |
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| 1. | "Rhûn" | 03:25 | |
| 2. | "Long Lost to Where No Pathway Goes" | 07:23 | |
| 3. | "The Glory Disappears" | 07:49 | |
| 4. | "Like Some Snow-White Marble Eyes" | 07:19 | |
| 5. | "Where Hope and Daylight Die" | 06:28 | |
| 6. | "The Rotting Horse on the Deadly Ground" | 08:25 | |
| 7. | "The Shadow Lies Frozen on the Hills" | 07:01 | |
| 8. | "The Loud Music of the Sky" | 06:47 | |
| 9. | "A Distant Flame Before the Sun" | 09:43 | |
Total length: |
64:21 | ||
Credits
- Protector - vocals, guitars, keyboards
- Silenius - vocals, keyboards
- Tania Borsky - vocals on 'Where Hope and Daylight Die'
Lyrical references
Stronghold marks the first time in which not all lyrics were derived from J. R. R. Tolkien
- Rhûn is Elvish word for "east" and was the name used for all lands lying east of Middle-Earth
- Long Lost To Where No Pathway Goes is taken from the Lays of Beleriand, The Lay of the Children of Húrin and a Tolkien poem about St. Brendan's death, called Imram.
- The Glory Disappears is taken from William Wordsworth's poems "Loud Is the Vale" & "Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree"
- Like Some Snow-White Marble Eyes is about when Húrin is held captive by Morgoth and the lyrics are derived from a poem by Robert Frost called "Stars"
- Where Hope and Daylight Dies is from the Tolkien poem, "I Sit Upon the Stones Alone"
- The Rotting Horse on the Deadly Ground is taken from "The Song of Eriol" from the Book of Lost Tales.
- The Shadow Lies on the Frozen Hills is lyrically based on two poems found in The Fellowship of the Ring, in the chapters "A Conspiracy Unmasked" and "Many Meetings"
- The Loud Music of the Sky was taken from Sir Walter Scott's "The Monastery", Chapter 12th, and from Dora Sigerson Shorter's poem "The Wind on the Hills".
- A Distant Flame Before The Sun the lyrics are taken from the "Song of Eärendil" which was written & performed by Bilbo in Rivendell ("The Ring Goes South" in "The Fellowship of the Ring")
References
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