Thousand Swords is the second full length album by black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Graveland

Graveland

Graveland is a Polish black metal band which was formed in 1992 by Rob Darken . The lyrics of Graveland are strongly inspired by nature, paganism and nationalism.-History:...

. This release showed a progression in Graveland's sound from raw black metal to black metal with folk and Viking metal

Viking metal

Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its galloping pace, keyboard-rich anthemic sound, bleakness and dramatic emphasis on lyrical themes of Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age...

influence to it. In 1995, the album was re-released by Isengard Distribution with a different cover. In 1999, it was re-released again by No Colours Records with a different album cover. In 2001, it was re-released again by No Colours Records on CD and vinyl. The CD version had the logo in red and the vinyl version had a red logo. The CD and vinyl versions had different covers from each other.

Track listing

1. "Intro" - 1:35
2. "Blood of Christians on My Sword" - 8:05
3. "Thousand Swords" - 6:32
4. "The Dark Battlefield" - 7:57
5. "The Time of Revenge" - 4:50
6. "Born for War" - 8:31
7. "Black Metal War" - 1:42
8. "To Die in Fight" - 5:41
9. "Outro" - 2:01