Communion (album)

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Background and production

Musical and lyrical themes

Critical reception

Track listing

1. "Lovecraft's Death
   H. P. Lovecraft
   
   Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an United States author of horror fiction, fantasy fiction, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction....
   " – 4:08
2. "Anubis
   Anubis
   
   Anubis is the Greek language name for a jackal-headed deity associated with mummy and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology. In the ancient Egyptian language, Anubis is known as Inpu, ....
   " – 4:17
3. "Communion" – 3:25
4. "Babel's Gate
   Tower of Babel
   
   The Tower of Babel according to chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built at the city of Babel, the Hebrew name for Babylon ....
   " – 2:57
5. "We, The Gods" – 3:49
6. "Sunlight/Moonlight" – 4:08
7. "Persepolis
   Persepolis
   
   Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid dynasty. Persepolis is situated northeast of the modern city of Shiraz, Iran in the Fars Province of modern Iran....
   " – 6:08
8. "Sangreal" – 5:16
9. "Narcissus
   Narcissus (mythology)
   
   Narcissus or Narkissos in Greek mythology was a hero from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. In the various stories, he became obsessed with his own reflection in a pool, and for one reason or another, dies because of it....
   " – 3:59

Personnel

• Seth Siro Anton – bass
  Bass guitar
  
  The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  , vocals
  Singing
  
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  , artwork
  Cover art
  
  Cover art is the illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book, magazine, comic book, product package, video game, DVD, Compact Disc, videotape, audio album, manual or brochure....
  
• Sotiris V. – guitar
  Electric guitar
  
  An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
  , backing vocals
• Christos Antoniou – guitar, samplers
  Sampler (musical instrument)
  
  A sampler is an electronic musical instrument closely related to a synthesizer. Instead of generating sounds from scratch, however, a sampler starts with multiple recordings of different sounds added by the user, and then plays each back based on how the instrument is configured....
  , orchestration
  Orchestration
  
  Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium. It only gradually over the course of music history came to be regarded as a compositional art in itself....
  
• Fotis Benardo – drums
  Drum kit
  
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  
• Marios Iliopoulos
  Marios Iliopoulos
  
  Marios Iliopoulos, born December 16 1969 in Sydney, Australia is an acclaimed Heavy metal music guitarist and founder of the Greece/Sweden melodic death metal band Nightrage, and a former member of Exhumation ....
   – guitar solo
  Guitar solo
  
  Guitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock , metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz fusion....
   on "Babel's Gate"
• Fredrik Nordström
  Fredrik Nordström
  
  Fredrik Nordstr?m, born on 5 January 1967, is a renowned Sweden record producer and guitar player for the Heavy metal music band Dream Evil. Fredrik is one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, and he has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy , Nightrage, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, S...
   – sound engineer
  Audio engineering
  
  Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. The field draws on many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music....
  , producer
  Record producer
  
  In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
  
• Henric Udd – sound engineer
• Peter in de Betou – sound master
  Audio mastering
  
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced ....
  

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