Grace Submerged, the second album by Norwegian doom

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/gothic metal

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 band Octavia Sperati

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, was released in May 2007 via Candlelight Records

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. It was produced by Herbrand Larsen, who also plays keyboard

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s and engineers

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 albums for Enslaved

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. Ivar Bjornson (guitarist for Enslaved) makes an appearance here, co-writing "Dead End Poem". The album features an interpretation of the Phil Lynott

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-penned "Don't Believe A Word", which Terrorizer Magazine called "a chilling ballad".

Track listing

1. "Guilty Am I" (Losnegaard/Wergeland)
2. "Moonlit" (Losnegaard/Wergeland)
3. "Going North" (Johansen/Wergeland)
4. "Don't Believe A Word" (Lynott)
5. "...And Then The World Froze" (Myklebust/Wergeland)
6. "The Final Rest" (Myklebust/Wergeland)
7. "Deprivation" (Johansen/Wergeland)
8. "Provenance Of Hate" (Losnegaard/Wergeland)
9. "Dead End Poem" (Bjornson/Peersen/Wergeland)
10. "Submerged" (Morfeus/Midtgaard)

Personnel

• Silje Wergeland – vocals
• Bodil Myklebust – guitar
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• Gyri S. Losnegaard – guitar
• Trine C. Johansen – bass
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• Tone Midtgaard – keyboard
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• Ivar Alver – drums
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• Produced, engineered and mixed by Herbrand Larsen