Sterling Black Icon - Chapter III - Black But Shining
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Sterling Black Icon - Chapter III - Black But Shining is the third full-length album by the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 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, Fragments of Unbecoming
Fragments of unbecoming
Fragments of Unbecoming is a melodic death metal band from Laudenbach, Germany. The band's guitarist Sascha Ehrich is also a renowned artist in the metal world, having designed album covers for bands such as Necrophagist...

. The Europe
Europe
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an release edition for Sterling Black Icon comes with an "extra noble" cardboard-box.

Track listing

  1. "Carmine Preface (Entrance)" − 0:52
  2. "Sterling Black Icon" − 5:14
  3. "Weave Their Barren Path" − 4:08
  4. "Dear Floating Water" − 7:11
  5. "Breathe in the Black to See" − 7:21
  6. "Ride for a Fall" − 0:44
  7. "A Faint Illumination" − 5:49
  8. "Live for This Moment, Stay 'Til the End" − 5:59
  9. "Scythe of Scarecrow" − 4:49
  10. "Onward to the Finger of God" − 1:37
  11. "Stand the Tempest" − 4:12
  12. "Chambre Noire (Departure)" − 2:30 (translated as Dark Room in French)

Band

  • Sam Anetzberger - Lead Death Vocals
    Death growl
    A death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...

  • Stefan Weimar - Backing Death Vocals
    Death growl
    A death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...

    , Guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Sascha Ehrich - Guitar, Acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Wolle Schellenberg - Bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Ingo Maier - 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 ....


Production and other

  • The drums were recorded in PMT Studios by Tikk. Watchful assistance and engineering by Christoph Brandes.
  • All guitars, bass guitars and vocals were recorded and engineered in Sound Tunnel Studios by Ingo Maier.
  • Mixed and mastered by Christoph Brandes at the Iguana Studios.
  • Produced by Fragments of Unbecoming and Christoph Brandes.
  • All lyrics and musical arrangements by Fragments of Unbecoming, except "Chambre Noire" by Marcel Schiborr.
  • Final infinite scream on "A Faint Illumination" by Todd "Brave" Collins.
  • Band photography by Bernd Siebold.
  • Digital band picture make-up by "Groundfrost"
  • Artwork was done in cooperation by Niklas Sundin and Sascha Ehrich.
  • Layout and design by Sascha Ehrich.
  • "Fragments Of Unbecoming" logotype by Sascha Ehrich, courtesy of "Precious Art".
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