Malevolent Rapture is a 2006 album by thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

/death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Legion of the Damned

Legion of the Damned (band)

Legion of the Damned is a thrash metal/death metal band from the Netherlands. The band was formed in 2004 following the demise of Occult and the departure of former singer Rachel Heyzer. Lyrically the band tend to focus on horror motifs, dark occult and religious themes and apocalyptic events...

. It was their first album since the demise their preceding band Occult with the loss of previous lead singer Rachel Heyzer. In common with later albums the lyrics heavily reference the dark side of the occult

Occult

The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

 and apocalyptic themes. The album was created in Stage One Studio and produced by Andy Classen

Andy Classen

-Holy Moses:He began his career in 1980 as a guitarist for the German thrash metal band Holy Moses, fronted by his ex-wife Sabina Classen. In 1989 the band bought a house in the village of Borgentreich-Bühne in the vicinity of Warburg, North Rhine-Westphalia...

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Track listing

1. "Legion of the Damned" - 3:12
2. "Death's Head March" - 3:47
3. "Werewolf Corpse" - 3:57
4. "Into the Eye of the Storm" - 4:31
5. "Malevolent Rapture" - 4:06
6. "Demonfist" - 4:29
7. "Taste of the Whip" - 3:39
8. "Bleed for Me" - 3:58
9. "Scourging the Crowned King" - 3:40
10. "Killing for Recreation" - 3:51

Personnel

• Maurice Swinkels – vocals
  Singing
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• Richard Ebisch – guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Twan Fleuren – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Erik Fleuren – drums
  Drum kit
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External links

• Official website
• Legion of the Damned at Massacre Records
  Massacre Records
  Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany.The label was founded in 1991 by Torsten Hartmann. The label is specialized on bands of the harder varieties of metal...