| Grace Submerged | ||||
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| Studio album by Octavia Sperati | ||||
| Released | 21 May 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006/2007 | |||
| Genre | Gothic metal, doom metal | |||
| Length | 37:51 | |||
| Label | Candlelight Records | |||
| Producer | Herbrand Larsen | |||
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Grace Submerged, the second and final album by Norwegian doom/gothic metal band Octavia Sperati, was released in May 2007 via Candlelight Records.
Background
Grace Submerged was produced by Herbrand Larsen, former keyboardist of extreme metal band Enslaved. Ivar Bjørnson of the same band made an appearance on the album, co-writing "Dead End Poem".
The album features an interpretation of the Phil Lynott-penned "Don't Believe A Word", which Terrorizer Magazine called "a chilling ballad". Krister Dreyer ("Morfeus") plays the piano and keyboards in that song and the samples in "Submerged".
The song "Moonlit" was released as a music video.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Guilty Am I" | S. Wergeland | G. Losnegaard | 4:31 |
| 2. | "Moonlit" | S. Wergeland | G. Losnegaard | 5:06 |
| 3. | "Going North" | S. Wergeland | T.C. Johansen | 4:00 |
| 4. | "Don't Believe A Word" (Thin Lizzy cover) | P. Lynott | P. Lynott | 3:07 |
| 5. | "...And The World Froze" | S. Wergeland | B. Myklebust | 4:14 |
| 6. | "The Final Rest" | S. Wergeland | B. Myklebust | 3:25 |
| 7. | "Deprivation" | S. Wergeland | T.C. Johansen | 4:15 |
| 8. | "Provenance Of Hate" | S. Wergeland | G. Losnegaard | 3:45 |
| 9. | "Dead End Poem" | I. Bjørnson | H. Larsen, S. Wergeland | 3:34 |
| 10. | "Submerged" | Instrumental | Morfeus, T. Midtgaard | 1:54 |
| Total length: | 37:51 | |||
Personnel
Octavia Sperati
- Silje Wergeland – vocals
- Bodil Myklebust – guitar
- Gyri S. Losnegaard – guitar
- Trine C. Johansen – bass
- Tone Midtgaard – keyboard
- Ivar Alver – drums
Additional musicians
- Morfeus (Krister Dreyer) - keyboards, piano & samplings in tracks 4 & 10
Production and Engineering
- Produced, engineered and mixed by Herbrand Larsen
- Co-engineer – Arve "Ice Dale" Isdal
- Mastered By – Jaimee Gomez
- Artwork By – Richard Lock
- Photography – Tommy Næss
- Recorded and produced in Earshot Studio, Bergen November/December 2006.
- Track 4 and keyboards, piano and samplings on all tracks recorded in MOF Studio in Sandefjord.
- Guitar on track 6 recorded in Earshot Studio.
- Mixed at Lydriket/Your Favourite Music.