Track listing

1. "Liberty or Death" - 6:33
2. "Ocean of Blood" - 4:12
3. "Highland Tears" - 6:15
4. "The Terrible One" - 4:08
5. "Until the Last King Died" - 5:46
6. "March of the Innocent" - 5:56
7. "Silent Revolution" - 6:24
8. "Shadowland" - 6:26
9. "Forecourt to Hell" - 5:02
10. "Massada" - 5:58

Lyrical themes

• Vocalist Chris Boltendahl was inspired with this album by the book named "Liberty Or Death
  Captain Michalis
  Captain Michalis is one of the most widely read books of modern Greek literature which has been translated and published in several languages. It was written by Nikos Kazantzakis and was first published in Greek in 1953...
  
  " by the Crete
  Crete
  Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...
  
  an writer Nikos Kazantzakis
  Nikos Kazantzakis
  Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus...
  
  , whose title is the English translation of Eleftheria i thanatos
  Eleftheria i thanatos
  Eleftheria i thanatos is the motto of Greece. It arose during the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s, where it was a war cry for the Greeks who rebelled against Ottoman rule. It was adopted after the Greek War of Independence. It is still in use today, and is a popular theory regarding the use...
  
  . The book directly inspired the title song about the Greek revolution
  Greek War of Independence
  The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between...
  
   on Crete, with lyrical references to the Greek national anthem.

• Two songs deal with Germany's treatment of the Jews in the Second World War and a further two more about more Ancient Jewish history. "Ocean of Blood" tells of Moses
  Moses
  Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed...
  
   parting the Red Sea
  Red Sea
  The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
  
   and "Massada" tells of the siege of Masada
  Masada
  Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Masada is best known for the violence that occurred there in the first century CE...
  
   at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War
  First Jewish-Roman War
  The First Jewish–Roman War , sometimes called The Great Revolt , was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews of Judaea Province , against the Roman Empire...
  
  . "March of the Innocent" is about the Holocaust and "Ship of Hope" tells of the "Voyage of the Damned" of the SS St. Louis
  SS St. Louis
  The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable for a single voyage in 1939, in which her captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba. The event was the subject of a 1974 book, Voyage of the Damned, by Gordon Thomas and...
  
  . Boltendahl said that the number of songs on this subject was not intended, but that the stories were interesting on their own. http://www.bravewords.com/news/61726

• "Highland Tears" deals with freedom in Scotland. "Forecourt to Hell" deals with the gladiators in the Roman Empire age. "The Terrible One" is about Ivan the Terrible. "Until the Last King Died" is about the French Revolution
  French Revolution
  The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
  
  . "Shadowland" is about the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan
  Ku Klux Klan
  Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...
  
  in the USA.

Album line-up

• Chris Boltendahl - Vocals
• Manni Schmidt - Guitars
• Jens Becker - Bass
• Stefan Arnold - Drums
• HP Katzenburg - Keyboards