Via Dolorosa (album)
Encyclopedia
Via Dolorosa is the second album by Swedish
heavy metal
band Ophthalamia
. It was released in 1995 through Avantgarde Music.
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....
heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band Ophthalamia
Ophthalamia
Ophthalamia was a Swedish heavy metal band that formed in 1989.-Biography:Ophthalamia was started in 1989 by singer All and guitarist It, both also active in the musical groups Abruptum and Vondur. The band named themselves Ophthalamia after a fantasy-world created by It. He created and named the...
. It was released in 1995 through Avantgarde Music.
Track listing
- "Intro; Under Opthalamian Skies/To the Benighted" – 2:28 (It, Legion, Night)
- "Black as Sin, Pale as Death/Autumn Whispers" – 7:33 (It)
- "After a Releasing Death/Castle of No Repair (Part II)" – 5:03 (It, Sorrow)
- "Slowly Passing the Frostlands/A Winterland's Tear" – 9:29 (It, A. Sjoberg)
- "Via Dolorosa/My Springnight's Sacrifice" – 10:56 (It)
- "Opthalamia/The Eternal Walk (Part III)" – 11:15 (It, Legion)
- "Nightfall of Mother Earth/Summer Distress" – 10:50 (It, Legion, Night)
- "Outro; Message to Those after Me/Death Embrace Me (Part II)" – 2:13 (It, Axa)
- "A Lonely Ceremony/The Eternal Walk" – 5:39 (Bonus) (It)
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Personnel
- Legion (Erik Hagstedt) - Lead Vocals, Screams
- It (Tony SärkkäTony SärkkäTony Särkkä, who goes by the stage name It, is a Swedish-Gipsy multi-instrumentalist who has played in many black metal bands. He plays guitar, drums and bass guitar as well as doing vocals. He is joined by Jim Berger in many projects. His projects include Abruptum, Ophthalamia, Vondur, Incision,...
) - Guitars, Additional Vocals, Talk, Whispers, Screams - Night (Emil Nödveidt) - Bass guitars, Acoustic guitars, screams
- Winter (Benny Larsson) - Drums, Percussion, Screams
- With Axa: Piano & Additional Vocals
Production
- Produced By Ophtalamia
- Recorded & Engineered By Dan SwanoDan SwanöDan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...