Feel the Blade is a 2008 album by thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

/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 Legion of the Damned

Legion of the Damned (band)

Legion of the Damned is a thrash metal/death metal band from the Netherlands. The band was formed in 2004 following the demise of Occult and the departure of former singer Rachel Heyzer. Lyrically the band tend to focus on horror motifs, dark occult and religious themes and apocalyptic events...

. It is actually a re-release of Elegy for the Weak, originally released under the name of Occult, the prior incarnation of Legion of the Damned under singer Rachel Heyzer, and contains an altered tracklist. Lyrical topics on the album include horror motifs, the devastation of nuclear war and violent occult themes. Serial murder plays a more prominent role in this album than in later writings, with "Nocturnal Predator" about Richard Ramirez

Richard Ramirez

Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison...

 actually quoting the killer in the lyrics ("Lucifer dwells within us all"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0D61438F931A25752C1A96F948260). The final bonus track is a cover of a Pestilence

Pestilence (band)

Pestilence is a death metal band from the Netherlands founded in 1986. Later they incorporated more jazz and fusion elements into their music. After disbanding in order to pursue other musical directions in 1994, Pestilence has reunited in 2008...

 song.

Track listing

1. "Nuclear Torment" - 3:44
2. "Nocturnal Predator" - 4:12
3. "Slaughtering the Pigs" - 4:20
4. "Slut of Sodom" - 3:46
5. "Feel the Blade" - 4:19
6. "Expire" - 2:24
7. "Warbeast" - 2:58
8. "Disturbing the Dead" - 3:27
9. "Obsessed by the Grave" - 5:13
10. "Reaper's Call" - 3:21
11. "Last Command"*
12. "Mask of Terror"*
13. "Chronic Infection"*

• The songs 11–13 are bonus tracks.

Personnel

• Maurice Swinkels – 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...
  
  
• Richard Ebisch – 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...
  
  
• Harold Gielen – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Erik Fleuren – drums
  Drum kit
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External links

• Official website
• Legion of the Damned at Massacre Records
  Massacre Records
  Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany.The label was founded in 1991 by Torsten Hartmann. The label is specialized on bands of the harder varieties of metal...