Illumination is the fifth full-length album by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 band Tristania

Tristania (band)

Tristania is a band from Norway, formed in 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Tristania's music is usually classified as symphonic gothic metal with doom/death metal influences , due to its strong ties with the goth metal's history...

. It was released on January 22nd, 2007, and is the last album to feature Vibeke Stene

Vibeke Stene

Vibeke Stene is a Norwegian soprano singer. She is most often recognized as the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Tristania. Stene met the members of Tristania during her first years in high school. She joined the band shortly before they started recording their self-titled demo...

 on vocals, Rune Østerhus on bass, Svein Terje Solvang on guitars and Kenneth Olsson on drums. This is also the final album to feature, Østen Bergøy, as a member of the band, although he performed some vocal work on the bands next studio album.

Track listing

• Music By Anders H. Hidle & Einar Moen, except where noted; all lyrics by Osten Bergoy, except where noted. (Magic Arts Music/Musik Kontor)

1. "Mercyside" – 4:39 (Music: Hidle, Moen, Sorychta)
2. "Sanguine Sky" – 3:50 (Lyrics: Kjartan Hermansen)
3. "Open Ground" – 4:40
4. "The Ravens" – 5:06
5. "Destination Departure" – 4:34 (Lyrics: Moen)
6. "Down" – 4:32
7. "Fate" – 4:59
8. "Lotus" – 5:08
9. "Sacrilege" – 4:15 (Lyrics: Moen)
10. "Deadlands" – 6:39

Bonus Tracks:

• "In The Wake" - 4:08 (European Release)
• "Ab Initio" - 5:43 (North-American Release)

Tristania

• Vibeke Stene
  Vibeke Stene
  Vibeke Stene is a Norwegian soprano singer. She is most often recognized as the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Tristania. Stene met the members of Tristania during her first years in high school. She joined the band shortly before they started recording their self-titled demo...
  
   – Vocals
• Østen Bergøy – Clean vocals
• Anders Høyvik Hidle – Guitars, Clean Vocals on "In The Wake"
• Svein Terje Solvang – Guitars
• Einar Moen – Synth/Programming, Effect Vocals on "Destination Departure"
• Rune Østerhus – Bass
• Kenneth Olsson – Drums

Session Members

• Vorph
  Vorph
  Michael Locher is a Swiss musician who provides vocals and plays guitar for Swiss industrial/black metal band Samael. He co-founded the band in 1987 with his brother Alexandre Locher on drums. Michael's musical influences include Slayer, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Venom, Bathory, and early Possessed...
  
   – Harsh Vocals on "Mercyside", "The Ravens" & "In The Wake"
• Petra Stalz – Violin
• Heike Haushalter – Violin
• Monika Malek – Viola
• Gesa Hangen – Cello

Production

• Produced By Waldemar Sorychta
  Waldemar Sorychta
  Waldemar Sorychta , is a German heavy metal musician, songwriter, producer and artist who lives in Dortmund Germany since 1982.- Career :He initially worked with the German thrash metal band Despair, founded in 1986....
  
  
• Recorded & Engineered By Waldemar Sorychta, Siggi Bemm, Dennis Koehne
• Mixed By Waldemar Sorychta

External links

• "Illumination" at discogs