The Focusing Blur
Encyclopedia
The Focusing Blur is the fifth full-length album by Swedish
progressive
/folk metal
band Vintersorg
. It was released on February 16, 2004. This album was the most progressive album to date, with many experimental and avant-garde elements and the lyrics were now all written and sung in English
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Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
progressive
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
/folk metal
Folk metal
Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...
band Vintersorg
Vintersorg
Vintersorg is a Swedish band from Skellefteå, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron . Musically, Vintersorg has covered a wide number of heavy metal genres; while the band is mostly rooted in extreme metal styles, particularly black metal and Viking/folk metal, it has also expanded into...
. It was released on February 16, 2004. This album was the most progressive album to date, with many experimental and avant-garde elements and the lyrics were now all written and sung in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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Track listing
- All Songs Written & Arranged By Vintersorg (Iron Avantgarde Publishing).
- "Prologue Dialogue - The Reason" – 2:14
- "The Essence" – 5:54
- "The Thesises Seasons" – 4:47
- "Matrix Odyssey" – 4:39
- "Star Puzzled" – 5:48
- "A Sphere in a Sphere? (To Infinity)" – 5:35
- "A Microscopical Macrocosm" – 4:37
- "Blindsight Complexity" – 4:52
- "Dark Matter Mystery (Blackbody Spectrum)" – 5:03
- "Curtains" – 4:45
- "Artifacts of Chaos" – 2:37
- "Epilogue Metalogue - Sharpen Your Mind Tools" – 2:59
Vintersorg
- Mr. VAndreas HedlundAndreas Hedlund , also known as Vintersorg and Mr. V, is a Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played in several heavy metal bands.-Biography:...
- All vocals, acoustic, rhythm, & lead guitars, keyboards, Hammond, loops & editing - Mattias MarklundMattias MarklundMattias Marklund is a guitarist who plays in Vintersorg, Casket Casey and TME. He also did guest guitar work for Vintersorg band mate, Andreas Hedlund's progressive rock band, Waterclime.-With Otyg:...
- Lead & rhythm guitars
Guest Musicians
- Lars "Lazare" NedlandLars NedlandLars Are Nedland , known also as Lazare, from Kristiansand, Norway, is the vocalist, drummer and keyboardist for acclaimed avant-garde black metal band Solefald. He is also keyboardist for the progressive black metal act Borknagar...
- Storytelling, Hammond on "Star Puzzled" - Steve DiGiorgioSteve DiGiorgioSteve 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...
- Session Bass - Asgeir MickelsonAsgeir MickelsonAsgeir Mickelson is a Norwegian musician, artist, photographer and music reviewer. Although primarily a drummer, Mickelson has stated that he considers himself a musician above a drummer, and is also a guitarist and bassist....
- Session Drums
Production
- Produced By Vintersorg
- Recorded, Engineered & Mixed By Vintersorg, Borge Finstad & Nils Johansson