Dark Assault

Studio album by Iron Savior

Released

March 6, 2001

Recorded

July – October 2000 at Powerhouse Studio and Hansen Studio, Hamburg, Germany

Genre

Power metal, heavy metal

Length

61:20

Label

Noise

Producer

Piet Sielck, Kai Hansen, Iron Savior

Iron Savior chronology

Interlude
(1999)

Dark Assault
(2001)

Condition Red
(2002)

Dark Assault is the third studio album by the German power metal band Iron Savior. It continues the science fiction story that the band introduced on their debut album Iron Savior and continued on Unification and the Interlude EP.^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Never Say Die"	Piet Sielck	Sielck	5:32
2.	"Seek and Destroy"	Sielck	Sielck	3:45
3.	"Solar Wings"	Sielck, Kai Hansen	Sielck, Hansen	4:33
4.	"I've Been to Hell"	Sielck	Sielck, Jan-Sören Eckert	4:04
5.	"Dragons Rising"	Sielck	Sielck	6:24
6.	"Predators"	Sielck	Sielck	3:54
7.	"Made of Metal"	Sielck	Sielck	6:57
8.	"Firing the Guns"	Sielck	Sielck, Eckert	4:42
9.	"Eye of the World"	Sielck	Sielck	5:18
10.	"Back into the Light"	Sielck	Sielck	5:51
11.	"After the War"	Sielck, Eckert	Sielck, Eckert	6:18
12.	"Delivering the Goods" (Judas Priest cover)	Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, K.K. Downing	Tipton, Halford, Downing	3:59

Japanese edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
13.	"Headhunter" (Krokus cover)	Butch Stone, Chris von Rohr, Fernando von Arb, Marc Storace	Stone, von Rohr, von Arb, Storace	4:18
14.	"The Hellion / Electric Eye" (Judas Priest cover)	Tipton, Halford, Downing	Tipton, Halford, Downing	4:18

Personnel

Iron Savior

Piet Sielck – lead vocals, guitar
Kai Hansen – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Solar Wings"
Joachim "Piesel" Küstner – guitar, backing vocals
Andreas Kück – keyboards, backing vocals
Jan-Sören Eckert – bass, backing vocals, additional lead vocals on "After the War"
Thomas Nack – drums and percussion

Production

Piet Sielck – producer, engineer, mixing
Kai Hansen – additional production on "Solar Wings", vocal production on "Made of Metal" and "Back into the Light"
Iron Savior – additional production
Holger Drees – artwork
Maren Kumpe – booklet design
Jo Kirchherr – photography

References

↑ Sielck, Piet (2001). Dark Assault (booklet). Iron Savior. California: Noise Records USA, a division of Modern Music Records GmbH.

Iron Savior

Piet Sielck Joachim Küstner Jan-Sören Eckert Thomas Nack Kai Hansen Yenz Leonhardt Andreas Kück Thomen Stauch Dan Zimmermann

Studio albums	Iron Savior (1997) Unification (1999) Dark Assault (2001) Condition Red (2002) Battering Ram (2004) Megatropolis (2007) The Landing (2011) Rise of the Hero (2014)

Live albums	Live At The Final Frontier (2015)

Extended plays	Interlude (1999)

Related bands	Savage Circus Gamma Ray Masterplan Blind Guardian

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