Black Wings of Destiny is the second album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Dragonlord

Dragonlord (band)

Dragonlord is an American symphonic black metal band that was formed in 2001 as a side project by Eric Peterson & Steve DiGiorgio of Testament, and Steve Smyth of Nevermore. The band is a result of Eric Peterson's interest in darker music, and not being able to do that with Testament he formed...

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Almost all of the previous album's thrash roots vanished, replaced with pure black metal. Peterson also began extending creative control to the rest of the band, instead of writing all the music himself for this album. This is also the first album where the band first appeared in photos wearing corpsepaint.

Track listing

1. "The Becoming Of" – 1:18 (Eric Peterson, Derrick Ramirez)
2. "The Curse of Woe" – 5:39 (Peterson, Del James)
3. "Revelations" – 5:52 (Peterson, James, Ramirez, Lyle Livingston)
4. "Sins of Allegiance" – 6:48 (Peterson, James, Ramirez, Steve Smyth)
5. "Until the End" – 4:04 (Peterson, James, Livingston)
6. "Mark of Damnation" – 5:12 (Peterson, James, Livingston)
7. "Blood Voyeur" – 4:33 (Peterson, James, Livingston)
8. "Fallen" – 4:36 (Peterson, James, Smyth)
9. "Black Funeral" – 2:37 (Mercyful Fate
   Mercyful Fate
   Mercyful Fate was a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen. Initially active from 1981 to 1985, they reunited in 1992. The band went on hiatus again in 2000, when frontman King Diamond decided to continue his solo career...
   
    cover) (Michael Denner, King Diamond
   King Diamond
   Kim Bendix Petersen , better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Grammy Award nominated Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his extensive vocal range, in particular his usage of falsetto. He is the lead vocalist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond...
   
   , Hank Sherman)
10. "Emerald" – 3:49 (Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums...
    
     cover) (Brian Downey, Brian Robertson, Scott Gorham
    Scott Gorham
    Scott Gorham is an American guitarist and songwriter who rose to international recognition as one of the "twin lead guitarists" of the Irish-formed rock band, Thin Lizzy...
    
    , Phil Lynott
    Phil Lynott
    Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott was an Irish musician who first came to prominence as a founding member, principal songwriter, and frontman of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy....
    
    )

Personnel

• Eric Peterson
  Eric Peterson (musician)
  Eric Peterson is an American guitarist. He is best known as the only constant member of the US thrash metal band Testament. Eric has also formed a side-project black metal band called Dragonlord, in which he plays guitar and also sings. In Testament, Eric was originally a rhythm guitarist while...
  
   - Vocals, Guitars
• Steve Smyth
  Steve Smyth
  Steve Smyth is the guitarist for the metal band Forbidden.-Biography:Smyth was born in Northern California and started his career in the female-fronted melodic progressive metal band Ariah after graduation in 1988. Ariah never released an official studio album, but they recorded a few songs and...
  
   - Guitars
• Derrick Ramirez - Bass
• Lyle Livingston - Keyboards
• Jimmy Revson - Drums