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Morningrise
Sign in to saveMorningrise is the second studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 24 June 1996 in Europe by Candlelight Records and on 24 June 1997 in the United States by Century Black. The recording sessions took place at Unisound studio, in Finspång, during March and April 1996. Morningrise was the last Opeth release with drummer Anders Nordin and bassist Johan De Farfalla, as well as the last Opeth album to be produced by Dan Swanö.
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- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Slowdive
- First released
- 1991-02-18
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- 230
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- 2,217
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Key facts
- Album.name
- Morningrise
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Opeth
- Album.cover
- Opeth Morningrise.jpg
- Album.released
- 24 June 1996
- Album.recorded
- March–April 1996
- Album.studio
- Unisound (Finspång, Sweden)
- Album.genre
- Progressive death metal
- Album.length
- 66:00
- Album.label
- Candlelight, Century Black
- Album.producer
- Opeth, Dan Swanö
- Album.prev_title
- Orchid
- Album.prev_year
- 1995
- Album.next_title
- My Arms, Your Hearse
- Album.next_year
- 1998
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- progressive metal
- Producer
- Dan Swanö
- Performer
- Opeth
- Record label
- Century Media Records
- Distribution format
- music streaming
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- language of work or name
- English language
- publication date
- 1996-00-00
- title
- Morningrise
- form of creative work
- studio album
- number of parts of this work
- 5
- place of publication
- Sweden
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Morningrise is the second studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 24 June 1996 in Europe by Candlelight Records and on 24 June 1997 in the United States by Century Black. The recording sessions took place at Unisound studio, in Finspång, during March and April 1996. Morningrise was the last Opeth release with drummer Anders Nordin and bassist Johan De Farfalla, as well as the last Opeth album to be produced by Dan Swanö.
Morningrise showcases Opeth's signature style, exploring the dynamics between the combination of black metal and death metal vocals, and guitar parts with lighter progressive and acoustic elements.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morningrise” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.