Metamorphosis is the sixth studio album by the Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 melodic death metal

Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...

 band Mercenary

Mercenary (band)

Mercenary is a metal band from Denmark that was formed in 1991. Although they are usually labelled as a melodic death metal band, they use aspects of power metal in their music, as well as thrash metal in their earlier work.-Biography:...

. This is the first album, except for their debut, First Breath

First Breath

First Breath is the first album released by the band Mercenary. With this album, Mercenary showed their death metal roots, along with some thrash metal elements...

, not to include the Sandager brothers, Mikkel on clean vocals and Morten on keyboards and Mike Park on drums

Drum kit

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 since 11 Dreams

11 Dreams

-Musicians:*Jakob Mølbjerg – Rhythm guitar*Mikkel Sandager – Clean vocals*Henrik "Kral" Andersen – Death growls, bass*Morten Sandager – Keyboards*Mike Park – Drums*Martin Buus – Lead guitar-Special guest appearances:...

. This is also the first album to feature Morten Løwe on drums. It was released on February 25, 2011, under the label Napalm Records

Napalm Records

Napalm Records is an Austrian independent record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock.Originally, Napalm Records focused mainly on black metal acts such as Abigor and Summoning and folk metal bands such as Falkenbach and Vintersorg....

. The US version will be released on March 29 under the label Prosthetic Records

Prosthetic Records

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, and will include one bonus track. The song "The Follower" was released on the band's YouTube channel on December 23rd, 2010, and the song "In a River of Madness" was released for streaming on the band's Facebook

Facebook

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 page on February 8th, 2011. On February 14th, the whole album was released for streaming on the Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer

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 Germany website.

Track listing

1. "Through the Eyes of the Devil" - 5:13
2. "The Follower" - 4:33
3. "In a River of Madness" - 5:59
4. "Memoria" - 5:43
5. "Velvet Lies" - 6:53
6. "In Bloodred Shades" - 4:35
7. "Shades of Grey" - 5:36
8. "On the Edge of Sanity" - 4:24
9. "The Black Brigade" - 5:44

Bonus tracks

"Incorporate Your Demons" (US bonus track)

"Vanity For Sale" (iTunes bonus track)

"The Devil's Own" (iTunes bonus track)

Band members

• René Pedersen – vocals, bass
  Bass guitar
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• Martin Buus – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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  , keyboards
• Jakob Mølbjerg – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Morten Løwe – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....