Ending Themes (On the Two Deaths of Pain of Salvation)
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Ending Themes is a live album
Live album
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 and documentary
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 by progressive metal band Pain of Salvation
Pain of Salvation
Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive rock band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their sound is characterised by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense...

. It was released on January 26, 2009 with a DVD version released on March 3, 2009. The DVD release has a double disc feature. The first disc features an 80-minute documentary of the band's 2005 world tour directed by Per Hillblom while the second disc features the full concert video from the Paradiso show recorded on March 2, 2007. A Limited Edition will also be released that will include a double audio CD version of the Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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 concert. The CD version will be released independent of the DVDs as well.
The DVD is named in recognition of the two lineup changes that happened in the past few years. The first being at the end of the 2005 world tour (The First Death Of) where Kristoffer Gildenlöw
Kristoffer Gildenlöw
Kristoffer Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as bass guitarist in the band Pain of Salvation, a band started by his older brother Daniel Gildenlöw...

 left the band due to not being able to attend rehearsals since he lived in a different country than the rest of the band. He was temporarily replaced by Simon Andersson
Simon Andersson
Simon Andersson is a Swedish bass player, guitarist, vocalist, music programmer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work as a bass player in progressive metal band Pain of Salvation. He currently plays in the progressive metal band Darkwater...

. The second change came at the end of the 2007 world tour (The Second Death Of) where Johan Langell
Johan Langell
Johan Langell is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the former drummer of the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation.-Pain of Salvation:*Hereafter *Entropia...

 left the band to concentrate on family commitments. He has since been replaced by Léo Margarit
Léo Margarit
Léo Margarit is a French drummer, currently living in Sweden as a member of Pain of Salvation.- About :Born in 1981 in a musician family in the south of France, Léo Margarit started playing drums at the age of 5 and entered the local music school when he was 6...

 for the next studio album and the foreseeable future.

Track listing

All music by Daniel Gildenlöw
Daniel Gildenlöw
Daniel Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band. In the band, he is the main songwriter, lead guitar player, and the mastermind behind each album's concept...

, except "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

.


DVD1 - The First Death Of

SixWorlds/EightDays (80-minute documentary of 2005 world tour by Per Hillblom)

DVD2 - The Second Death Of

Touching You Harder: Live From Amsterdam
  1. "Scarsick"
  2. "America"
  3. "Nightmist"
  4. "! (Foreword)"
  5. "Handful of Nothing"
  6. "New Year's Eve"
  7. "Ashes"
  8. "Undertow"
  9. "Brickworks 1 (Parts II-IV)"
  10. "Chain Sling"
  11. "Diffidentia"
  12. "Flame to the Moth"
  13. "Disco Queen"
  14. "Hallelujah"
  15. "Cribcaged"
  16. "Used"


CD1
  1. "Scarsick" - 7:09
  2. "America" - 5:55
  3. "Nightmist" - 7:48
  4. "! (Foreword)" 6:47
  5. "Handful of Nothing" 7:43
  6. "New Year's Eve" - 5:48
  7. "Ashes" - 5:25
  8. "Undertow" - 5:11


CD2
  1. "Brickworks 1 (Parts II-IV)" - 6:25
  2. "Chain Sling" - 3:59
  3. "Diffidentia" - 7:36
  4. "Flame to the Moth" - 6:04
  5. "Disco Queen" - 8:15
  6. "Hallelujah" - 9:04
  7. "Cribcaged" - 6:24
  8. "Used" - 5:43

Personnel

Pain of Salvation live from Amsterdam 2007:
  • Daniel Gildenlöw
    Daniel Gildenlöw
    Daniel Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band. In the band, he is the main songwriter, lead guitar player, and the mastermind behind each album's concept...

     – lead vocals, guitars
  • Johan Hallgren
    Johan Hallgren
    Johan Hallgren is a Swedish musician. He is a guitarist and backing vocalist in the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation....

     – guitars, harmony vocals
  • Fredrik Hermansson
    Fredrik Hermansson
    Fredrik Hermansson is a Swedish musician. He is currently a keyboardist and backing vocalist in the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation. He also works as a free-lance piano player and composer...

     – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Simon Andersson
    Simon Andersson
    Simon Andersson is a Swedish bass player, guitarist, vocalist, music programmer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work as a bass player in progressive metal band Pain of Salvation. He currently plays in the progressive metal band Darkwater...

     – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Johan Langell
    Johan Langell
    Johan Langell is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the former drummer of the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation.-Pain of Salvation:*Hereafter *Entropia...

     – drums, backing vocals


Additional members present in 2005 documentary:
  • Kristoffer Gildenlöw
    Kristoffer Gildenlöw
    Kristoffer Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as bass guitarist in the band Pain of Salvation, a band started by his older brother Daniel Gildenlöw...

     – bass guitar, vocals
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