Battle Magic

This article is about the Bal-Sagoth album. For the novel by Tamora Pierce, see Battle Magic (novel).
Battle Magic
Studio album by Bal-Sagoth
Released November 2, 1998
Recorded October–December 1997 at Academy Music Studio, Yorkshire, England
Genre Symphonic black metal
Length 49:54
Label Cacophonous
Producer Mags
Bal-Sagoth chronology
Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
(1996)
Battle Magic
(1998)
The Power Cosmic
(1999)

Battle Magic is the third album by Bal-Sagoth, released in 1998 on Cacophonous Records, and is their last recording for that company before they signed to Nuclear Blast.

It is the last album to feature Jonny Maudling on drums, who following this album would go on to concentrate fully on playing the keyboards. The cover artwork for the album features the fantasy character "Caylen-Tor", created by Bal-Sagoth vocalist/lyricist Byron Roberts.

The band were awarded one full month to record, much of which was spent on the orchestral arrangements. The keyboards in "Blood Slakes the Sand at the Circus Maximus" alone took six full days to complete.[1] The opening of "Blood Slakes the Sand at the Circus Maximus" is identical to the score for the film Spartacus composed by Alex North.

Track listing

All songs composed by Byron Roberts and Jonny and Chris Maudling.

No. Title Length
1. "Battle Magic"   02:45
2. "Naked Steel (The Warrior's Saga)"   04:44
3. "A Tale from the Deep Woods"   05:36
4. "Return to the Praesidium of Ys"   06:29
5. "Crystal Shards"   02:17
6. "The Dark Liege of Chaos Is Unleashed at the Ensorcelled Shrine of A'zura-Kai (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire, Part II)"   04:14
7. "When Rides the Scion of the Storms"   06:16
8. "Blood Slakes the Sand at the Circus Maximus"   08:53
9. "Thwarted by the Dark (Blade of the Vampyre Hunter)"   06:18
10. "And Atlantis Falls..."   02:22
Total length:
49:54

Personnel

Additional personnel

References

  1. http://www.bal-sagoth.freeserve.co.uk/discography.html
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