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Nine Destinies and a Downfall is the third full-length album by the Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 symphonic metal
Symphonic metal
Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...

 band Sirenia
Sirenia (band)
Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway which incorporates a mixture of gothic metal and symphonic metal, as well as extreme metal and death metal elements...

. It was released on 23 February 2007 through Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...

. The enhanced CD
Enhanced CD
Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players....

 of the digipak
Digipak
Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...

 edition contains a bonus track, the video for the song "My Mind's Eye
My Mind's Eye (Sirenia song)
"My Mind's Eye" is a song recorded by the Norwegian band Sirenia. Released as a radio promotional CD, it is the only promotional single for the Nine Destinies and a Downfall album.-Music video:...

" and multimedia software.

Track listing

  1. "The Last Call" – 4:45
  2. "My Mind's Eye
    My Mind's Eye (Sirenia song)
    "My Mind's Eye" is a song recorded by the Norwegian band Sirenia. Released as a radio promotional CD, it is the only promotional single for the Nine Destinies and a Downfall album.-Music video:...

    " – 3:38
  3. "One by One" – 5:30
  4. "Sundown" – 5:04
  5. "Absent Without Leave" – 4:53
  6. "The Other Side" – 3:55
  7. "Seven Keys and Nine Doors" – 4:55
  8. "Downfall" – 4:44
  9. "Glades of Summer" – 5:37

Enhanced-CD version bonus track

  • "My Mind's Eye
    My Mind's Eye (Sirenia song)
    "My Mind's Eye" is a song recorded by the Norwegian band Sirenia. Released as a radio promotional CD, it is the only promotional single for the Nine Destinies and a Downfall album.-Music video:...

    " (Radio Edit) – 3:17

Credits

  • Morten Veland
    Morten Veland
    Morten Veland is a Norwegian musician. He was one of the founding members of the Norwegian gothic metal band Tristania and later founded Sirenia....

     – guitars, harsh vocals (on tracks #4, #7 & #8), clean vocals (on tracks #5 & #7), bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , programming
  • Monika Pedersen
    Monika Pedersen
    Monika Pedersen is a Danish singer of the band Sinphonia and former vocalist of the Norwegian gothic metal band Sirenia, replacing Henriette Bordvik...

     – female vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     (on all tracks)
  • Jonathan Pérez
    Jonathan Pérez (musician)
    Jonathan Alejandro Pérez is a Chilean drummer who is currently based in Kristiansand, Norway. He is known for his work with the Norwegian gothic metal and symphonic metal bands Trail of Tears and Sirenia.-Career:...

     – drums
  • Damien Surian, Mathieu Landry, Emmanuelle Zoldan, Sandrine Gouttebel – choir
    Choir
    A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

     (on all tracks)