Rapture is the first album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the 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 Dragonlord

Dragonlord (band)

Dragonlord is an American symphonic black metal band that was formed in 2001 as a side project by Eric Peterson & Steve DiGiorgio of Testament, and Steve Smyth of Nevermore. The band is a result of Eric Peterson's interest in darker music, and not being able to do that with Testament he formed...

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Though essentially a black metal album, much of Eric Peterson's thrash roots can still be heard, likening the sound that to the faster thrash style on Testament's "The Gathering" album mixed with symphonic black metal. This is also the first time Peterson attempted vocals on any recordings.

Track listing

• Lyrics By Eric Peterson & Del James, except where noted. Music By Eric Peterson.

1. "Vals de la Muerte [Instrumental]" – 1:52 (Lyle Livingston)
2. "UnholyVoid" – 4:39
3. "Tradition and Fire" – 5:00
4. "Born to Darkness" – 5:22
5. "Judgement Failed" – 4:20
6. "Wolf Hunt" – 3:25
7. "Spirits in the Mist" – 5:03 (Lyrics: Lawrence Mackrory)
8. "Rapture" – 5:24

Personnel

• Eric Peterson
  Eric Peterson (musician)
  Eric Peterson is an American guitarist. He is best known as the only constant member of the US thrash metal band Testament. Eric has also formed a side-project black metal band called Dragonlord, in which he plays guitar and also sings. In Testament, Eric was originally a rhythm guitarist while...
  
   - Vocals, Guitars
• Steve Smyth
  Steve Smyth
  Steve Smyth is the guitarist for the metal band Forbidden.-Biography:Smyth was born in Northern California and started his career in the female-fronted melodic progressive metal band Ariah after graduation in 1988. Ariah never released an official studio album, but they recorded a few songs and...
  
   - Guitars
• Lyle Livingston - Keyboards
• Steve DiGiorgio
  Steve DiGiorgio
  Steve DiGiorgio is an American bassist and musician.DiGiorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal bands such as Death, Autopsy, Control Denied, Testament, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, Sebastian Bach, Charred Walls of the Damned, Obituary, and is a founding member of Sadus. He is widely renowned for...
  
   - Bass
• Jimmy Revson - Drums

Production

• Arranged By Dragonlord & Del James
• Produced By Dragonlord
• Engineered By Vincent "Vinny" Wojno, with assistance by Kent Mackte.
• Mixed By Daniel Bergstrand at Cutting Room Studios (Uppsala
  Uppsala
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