Rubicon is the sixth full-length album by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 band Tristania

Tristania (band)

Tristania is a band from Norway, formed in 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Tristania's music is usually classified as symphonic gothic metal with doom/death metal influences , due to its strong ties with the goth metal's history...

. It is the first Tristania album to feature female vocalist Mariangela Demurtas, who replaced former frontwoman Vibeke Stene

Vibeke Stene

Vibeke Stene is a Norwegian soprano singer. She is most often recognized as the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Tristania. Stene met the members of Tristania during her first years in high school. She joined the band shortly before they started recording their self-titled demo...

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Overview

The album was released on August 25, 2010, and displays a different lineup from the previous album. It is the first Tristania album to feature Mariangela Demurtas on female vocals, Kjetil Nordhus on clean vocals, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard on guitars, Ole Vistnes on bass, and Tarald Lie Jr. on drums. It's also the first album with harsh vocals that are performed entirely by guitarist Anders Høyvik Hidle. Pete Johansen made a guest appearance on violin after a nearly ten-year absence. Singer Østen Bergøy appeared as a session member, after scaling back to part-time membership in the band due to family commitments.

The first video of the album was for the song "Year of the Rat," released on August 12, 2010.

Track listing

Bonus tracks:

• "The Emerald Piper" – 3:06 (Limited Edition)
  • Limited first pressing (3,000) digipack includes "The Emerald Piper" between "Sirens" and "Vulture"
• "Caprice" – 3:38 (Bonus Edition)
  • Appears as the 11th and last track of the album

Release history

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Tristania

• Mariangela Demurtas - female vocals
• Kjetil Nordhus - clean vocals
• Anders Høyvik Hidle - guitars; harsh vocals on "Protection" & "Magical Fix"; harsh backing vocals on "Patriot Games", "Vulture" & "Illumination"
• Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard - guitars
• Ole Vistnes - bass, clean backing vocals
• Einar Moen - synth, programming
• Tarald Lie Jr. - drums

Session Members

• Østen Bergøy – additional clean vocals on "Patriot Games", "Exile", "Sirens" & "Illumination"
• Pete Johansen – violin on "The Passing", "Sirens", "Amnesia" & "Illumination"
• Sigmund Olgart Vegge - additional harsh vocals on "Vulture"

Production

• Drums recorded in Tanken Studio, Oslo by Fredrik Wallumrød, January 2010
• Guitars, bass and violin recorded in K-Lab Studio, Stavanger by Anders Høyvik Hidle & Ole Vistnes, February 2010
• Vocals recorded in Amadeus Studio, Oslo by Sigmund Olgart Vegge & Waldemar Sorychta, February & March 2010
• Mixed by Waldemar Sorychta and Dennis Koehne in Flying Pigs Studio, April 2010
• Mastered by Svante Forsbäck @ Chartmakers (www.chartmakers.fi), May 2010
• Produced by Anders Høyvik Hidle & Ole Vistnes
• Co-produced by Waldemar Sorychta
  Waldemar Sorychta
  Waldemar Sorychta , is a German heavy metal musician, songwriter, producer and artist who lives in Dortmund Germany since 1982.- Career :He initially worked with the German thrash metal band Despair, founded in 1986....
  
  
• All songs arranged by Waldemar Sorychta and Tristania
• Published by SONY ATV Publishing © 2010
• Photos and front cover artwork by angst-im-wald (www.angst-im-wald.com)
• Booklet design by Tinko Georgiev