Battle Beast is the second full-length album by the Finnish heavy metal band Battle Beast, released in May 2013.[1] It peaked at No. 5 on the Finnish Albums Chart.[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Anton Kabanen

No.TitleLength
1."Let It Roar"3:41
2."Out of Control"3:48
3."Out on the Streets"2:54
4."Neuromancer"4:00
5."Raven"2:57
6."Into the Heart of Danger"5:29
7."Machine Revolution"4:01
8."Golden Age"1:59
9."Kingdom"5:05
10."Over the Top"2:39
11."Fight, Kill, Die"2:43
12."Black Ninja"3:50
13."Rain Man"5:10
Total length:48:27
German edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
14."Shutdown"3:42
Total length:51:59

Literary references

As with Steel, several songs on Battle Beast reference the dark fantasy manga Berserk by Kentaro Miura: "Out of Control", "Golden Age", "Kingdom", and "Fight, Kill, Die". "Neuromancer", meanwhile, is about the William Gibson cyberpunk novel of same name.[3]

Personnel

Battle Beast

  • Noora Louhimo – lead vocals
  • Anton Kabanen – lead guitar, backing vocals (co-lead vocals on tracks 1, 5 and 13), production, engineering, mixing
  • Juuso Soinio – rhythm guitar
  • Eero Sipilä – bass, backing vocals
  • Pyry Vikki – drums
  • Janne Björkroth – keyboards, orchestration, backing vocals, co-production, engineering, mixing

Additional musicians

  • Joonas Kaikko – percussion

Production

References

  1. ^ "Battle Beast – Battle Beast – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". metal-archives.com. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Battle Beast – Battle Beast (album)". Finnishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. ^ "INTERVIEW: Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast)". Metal Divas. WordPress.com. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
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