King (Fleshgod Apocalypse album)

King
Studio album by Fleshgod Apocalypse
Released February 5, 2016
Recorded Kick Recording and 16th Cellar Studios, Rome in September–October 2015
Genre
Length 57:29
Label Nuclear Blast Records
Producer Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studio, Sweden in November 2015
Fleshgod Apocalypse chronology
Labyrinth
(2013)		 King
(2016)
Singles from King
  1. "The Fool"
    Released: January 1, 2016[1]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[2]
Exclaim!7/10[3]
Metal Hammer6/10[4]
MetalSucks[5]
The National Student[6]

King is the fourth full-length album from Italian technical death metal/symphonic metal band Fleshgod Apocalypse. The album was released on February 5, 2016 through Nuclear Blast Records.[7] The album was mixed and mastered at Fascination Street Studio in Örebro, Sweden.[1]

Concept

The King in this album represents the brave part of ourselves: the one we should cultivate to become strong and rise again from this Dark Age. He’s the only positive figure of this story—a man who has integrity and love for the values and truth that we all should hope for ourselves. All the other characters in the court represent the fears that can lead us to make everything worse. They try to affect the King’s decisions for their own advantage and hope for a loss of power, regardless of the suffering they’re going to create for their own world and people. As we already said when we presented King to our fans, we should all hail the King who lives inside every one of us.
— Tommaso Riccardi, "Decibel Magazine"[8]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Tommaso Riccardi and Paolo Rossi except where noted, all music composed by Francesco Paoli and Francesco Ferrini except where noted.

No. Title Length
1. "Marche Royale"   1:58
2. "In Aeternum"   5:26
3. "Healing Through War" (Speech from 'De Bello Gallico' by Julius Caesar) 4:43
4. "The Fool"   4:06
5. "Cold As Perfection" (Additional speaking by Nate Kantner) 6:31
6. "Mitra" (Additional speaking by Nate Kantner) 3:49
7. "Paramour (Die Leidenschaft Bringt Leiden)" (Lyrics taken from 'Trilogie der Leidenschaft' by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe) 3:43
8. "And the Vulture Beholds"   5:13
9. "Gravity"   5:12
10. "A Million Deaths"   5:27
11. "Syphilis"   7:22
12. "King" (Written by Francesco Ferrini) 3:59

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[9] 180

References

  1. 1 2 "FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE: New Song 'The Fool' Available For Streaming". December 28, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Drago, Dan. "Fleshgod Apocalypse - King review". Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ Falzon, Denise (February 3, 2016). "Fleshgod Apocalypse King". Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ Dare, Tom (February 2, 2016). "Fleshgod Apocalypse: King - Team Rock". Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Album Review: Fleshgod Apocalypse's King - MetalSucks". February 4, 2016. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  6. ↑ Mills, Matt (January 28, 2016). "Album review: Fleshgod Apocalypse - King - The National Student". Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ "FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE - »King« out now!". February 5, 2016. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ Solis, Matt (January 7, 2016). "Kingdom Come: An Interview with Fleshgod Apocalypse's Tommaso Riccardi". Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Fleshgod Apocalypse – King" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
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