Stab Wounds is an album by the German

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 Melodic black metal band Dark Fortress

Dark Fortress

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 which was released on June 11, 2004. The whole layout and cover art of the booklet has been designed by Travis Smith

Travis Smith (artist)

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. A strictly limited 2-LP Vinyl

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 version was released in December 2004 by the new German label Imperium Productions.

Track listing

1. "Iconoclasm Omega" - 6:41
2. "Self Mutilation" - 6:45
3. "Stab Wounds" - 8:11
4. "When 1000 Crypts Awake" - 4:00
5. "Despise the "Living"" - 5:36
6. "A Midnight Poem" - 8:47
7. "Rest in Oblivion" - 8:29
8. "Vanitas...No Horizons" - 1:24
9. "Like a Somnambulist in Daylight's Fire" - 7:52
10. "Sleep!" - 3:16

Total playing time 69:22

Vinyl bonus tracks

• "I Am the Black Wizards" (Emperor
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  Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...
  
   cover)
• "The Cryptic Winterforest"
• "Towards Immortality"

Personnel

• Azathoth - vocals
• Asvargr - guitar
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• V. Santura - guitar
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  , mixing
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• Draug - bass guitar
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• Paymon - keyboard
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• Seraph - drums
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• Travis Smith - art designs
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Guest appearances

1. Adimiron (Angst) and Jens Rydén (Naglfar
   Naglfar (band)
   Naglfar is a Swedish melodic black metal band formed in 1992. The group was formed by Jens Rydén and Kristoffer Olivius, originally under the name Uninterred.-Biography:...
   
   ) did some of the vocals on the song Rest in Oblivion.
2. Herr Morbid (Forgotten Tomb
   Forgotten Tomb
   Forgotten Tomb is an Italian blackened doom metal band, formed in Piacenza in 1999 by Ferdinando "Herr Morbid" Marchisio. The lyrical themes of the band's early albums revolve mostly around depression and suicide, while the recent albums lyrics deal with negativity and nihilism.Forgotten Tomb's...
   
   ) did some of the vocals on the song Like a Somnambulist in Daylight's Fire.

Cultural reference

The sample "Manche Menschen sagen ich bin ein Psycho... und sie haben recht, ich bin ein Psycho! Sehen Sie mich an." at the beginning of the song Self Mutilation is from the film The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense

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