Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds is the debut EP

Extended play

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 by death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth is a Swedish viking metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992, and takes its name from the Sindarin translation of Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The band comprises vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg, bassist Ted Lundström...

, released in April 1996 by Pulverised Records. It was originally released as a digipak

Digipak

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 limited to 1500 copies and later re-pressed as a normal MCD

Mini CD

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 in two different versions of 1500 and 1000 copies. The MCD was re-issued in 2000, digitally remastered in a press of 2000 copies. It was also released as a limited picture disc by Metal Supremacy Records with 500 copies in 2001. The entire album was eventually re-released in the "Viking Edition" of Versus the World.

Track listing

1. "Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds" – 3:51
2. "The Arrival of the Fimbul Winter" – 4:26
3. "Burning Creation" – 5:04
4. "The Mighty Doors of the Speargod's Hall" – 5:43
5. "Under the Grayclouded Winter Sky" – 5:38

Band members

• Nico Mehra – drums
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• Olavi Mikkonen – guitar
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• Johan Hegg – vocals
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• Anders Hannson – guitar
• Ted Lundström – bass guitar
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Other

• Mixed and engineered by Peter Tägtgren
  Peter Tägtgren
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• Cover by Amon Amarth
  Amon Amarth
  Amon Amarth is a Swedish viking metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992, and takes its name from the Sindarin translation of Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The band comprises vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg, bassist Ted Lundström...
  
  
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