The Shadow Cabinet
Encyclopedia
The Shadow Cabinet is the fourth full-length album by Danish
power metal
band Wuthering Heights
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USA bonus-disc: Roaming Far from Home – Live at ProgPower USA
2004
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
band Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (band)
Wuthering Heights is a Danish heavy metal band, with a somewhat eclectic musical style which falls in somewhere between progressive, folk, and power metal.- Biography :...
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Track listing
- "Demon Desire" – 5:18
- "Beautifool" – 5:02
- "The Raven" – 4:47
- "Faith - Apathy Divine Part I" – 8:13
- "Envy" – 6:41
- "Snow - Apathy Divine Part II" – 5:48
- "Sleep" – 4:45
- "I Shall Not Yield" – 6:40
- "Reason ... ?" – 0:31
- "Carpe Noctem - Seize the Night" – 7:47
- "Midnight Song" – 4:32 (European bonus-track)
- "Shadow of a Gipsy" – 4:39 (Japanese bonus-track)
USA bonus-disc: Roaming Far from Home – Live at ProgPower USA
ProgPower USA
ProgPower USA is a progressive and power metal festival held annually in the United States since 2001. Its twelfth edition will be held at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia on September 14 – September 17, 2011, with Sanctuary and Therion as headliners....
2004
- "Tree" – 5:17
- "Longing for the Woods Part 1" – 5:07
- "Longing for the Woods Part 2" – 6:03
- "Lost Realms" – 7:31
- "Bad Hobbits Die Hard" – 5:15
- "Hunter in the Dark" – 6:04
- "Highland Winds" – 7:40
Line-up
- Erik Ravn – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, narration, backing vocals - Nils Patrik JohanssonNils Patrik JohanssonNils Patrik Johansson is a Swedish heavy metal singer, best known as the vocalist for both Astral Doors and Wuthering Heights.-Astral Doors:* Of the Son and the Father * Evil Is Forever * Raiders of the Ark...
– all lead vocals, backing vocals - Morten Gade Sørensen – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, backing vocals - Andreas Lindahl – keyboards, backing vocals
- Martin Arendal – guitar
- Teddy "Dr.Müller" Möller – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
Guest musicians
- Lisbeth Sagen – violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Tommy Hansen – hammond organHammond organThe Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
, keyboards, accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, percussion, backing vocals - Tina Gunnarsson – backing vocals
- Niklas Kupper – backing vocals
Production
- Music and lyrics by Erik Ravn, except "Shadow of a Gipsy" (Music by Peter Mellin, lyrics by Torsten Olafsson - Ache)
- Recorded at:
- Jailhouse Studios, Horsens, Denmark – Engineered by Tommy Hansen
- Blueflame Productions, Uppsala, Sweden – Engineered by Teddy Möller & Niklas Kupper, assisted by Simon Hannula
- Charlotte Studios, Växjö, Sweden – Engineered by Stefan Toivonen
- Studio 907, Skovlunde, Denmark – Engineered by Martin Arendal
- The Cave, Copenhagen, Denmark – Engineered by Erik Ravn
- Mixed and Mastered by Tommy Hansen at Jailhouse Studios, Horsens, Denmark
- Cover art by Annika Von Holdt
- Design, layout and image manipulation by Claus Jensen