Crows Fly Black is the seventh album

Album

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 by Finnish

Finland

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 heavy metal band Tarot

Tarot (band)

Tarot is a heavy metal band from Finland. They are most famous for the song “Wings of Darkness” from the 1986 album Spell of Iron. While having enjoyed a broad underground popularity in Finland, the band has never been very famous elsewhere until gaining new success in the recent years when their...

, released October 27, 2006. This album is accompanied by the single 'You', and the music video 'Ashes to the Stars'. This is the first album to officially acknowledge Tommi 'Tumple' Salmela as a member of the band, referred to as an 'old-new' member; until then, Tommi's role was limited to sampling and backing vocals, while in this album, Tommi takes role of fully fledged vocalist.

Track listing

1. Crows Fly Black - 6:31
2. Traitor - 3:38
3. Ashes to the Stars - 5:25
4. Messenger of Gods - 4:23
5. Before the Skies Come Down - 4:06
6. Tides - 5:33
7. Bleeding Dust - 4:23
8. You
   You (Tarot single)
   "You" is the only single release from Tarot's seventh studio album Crows Fly Black.-Chart performance:...
   
    - 3:44
9. Howl! - 4:22
10. Grey - 4:49
11. *Veteran of Psychic Wars
    Veteran of the Psychic Wars
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     (Bonus Track) - 5:06

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
Finnish Albums Top 40	5

Credits (Tarot)

• Marco Hietala
  Marco Hietala
  Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala is a heavy metal vocalist and bassist. Internationally, he is most known as the current bassist, male vocalist and composer, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish...
  
   – vocals & backing vocals, bass, acoustic guitar
• Zachary Hietala
  Zachary Hietala
  Sakari "Zachary" Hietala is guitarist, co-songwriter and founding member of Finnish heavy metal band Tarot in early 80's, together with his younger brother Marco Hietala, who joined Nightwish in 2001...
  
   – guitars
• Janne Tolsa
  Janne Tolsa
  Janne Tolsa is a Finnish heavy metal musician. Known for his keyboard work in Tarot from the late 1980s, Tolsa also takes part in the melodic death metal band Eternal Tears of Sorrow, which he joined in 2005 for their album Before the Bleeding Sun, as well as the industrial metal band Turmion...
  
   – keyboards
• Pecu Cinnari – drums
• Tommi Salmela – samples, vocals & backing vocals

Guest musicians

• Emppu Vuorinen
  Emppu Vuorinen
  Erno "Emppu" Matti Juhani Vuorinen is a Finnish guitarist, most famous for being a founding member and occasional songwriter of the symphonic metal band Nightwish...
  
   (Nightwish
  Nightwish
  Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...
  
  ) - second part of solo on Traitor
• MC Raaka Pee
  MC Raaka Pee
  MC Raaka Pee is a Finnish metal musician, co-founder and vocalist of Turmion Kätilöt. He plays the piano and guitar as well....
  
   (Turmion Kätilöt
  Turmion Kätilöt
  Turmion Kätilöt is a Finnish industrial metal band founded in 2003 by MC Raaka Pee and DJ Vastapallo, who until the latter's departure, were the only studio lineup...
  
  ) - Backing vocals