The 13th Floor is the fourth 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...

 gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band Sirenia

Sirenia (band)

Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway which incorporates a mixture of gothic metal and symphonic metal, as well as extreme metal and death metal elements...

 and their first with the Spanish vocalist Ailyn

Ailyn

Pilar Giménez García is a Spanish singer, known as Ailyn. She is the female vocalist of the gothic metal band Sirenia.-Musical start:...

. It was released on January 23, 2009, through Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...

. The album features guest appearances by Jan Kenneth Barkved (who had also made some guest appearances on their album At Sixes and Sevens

At Sixes and Sevens

At Sixes and Sevens is Sirenia's first studio album. It is their only album with the vocals of French singer Fabienne Gondamin. The girl on the cover is a Norwegian model, picked by the designer to represent a Siren.- Track listing :...

), and the French

France

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 violin player, Stephanie Valentin, who adds to the sound along with the choir that has been a part of their sound since the beginning. The album was released in three formats: CD

Compact Disc

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, CD-Digi and box set. The box set edition was restricted to 500 copies worldwide. The download-only single, "The Path to Decay

The Path To Decay

"The Path To Decay" is a song recorded by the Norwegian band Sirenia. Released as a digital download, it is the first and final single from their album The 13th Floor.-Track listing:# "The Path To Decay - 3:33...

", was released on December 26, 2008.

Track listing

• All songs written By Morten Veland.

1. "The Path to Decay
   The Path To Decay
   "The Path To Decay" is a song recorded by the Norwegian band Sirenia. Released as a digital download, it is the first and final single from their album The 13th Floor.-Track listing:# "The Path To Decay - 3:33...
   
   " – 4:17
2. "Lost In Life" – 3:12
3. "The Mind Maelstrom" – 4:47
4. "The Seventh Summer" – 5:21
5. "Beyond Life's Scenery" – 4:33
6. "The Lucid Door" – 4:48
7. "Led Astray" – 4:35
8. "Winterborn 77" – 5:33
9. "Sirens Of The Seven Seas" – 5:13

Multimedia part

• Photo gallery
• Wallpapers
• Screen saver

CD-digi and box set bonus tracks:

• "The Path to Decay
  The Path To Decay
  "The Path To Decay" is a song recorded by the Norwegian band Sirenia. Released as a digital download, it is the first and final single from their album The 13th Floor.-Track listing:# "The Path To Decay - 3:33...
  
  " (Radio mix) - 3:34
• "The Mind Maelstrom" (Instrumental) - 4:49
• "Winterborn 77" (Instrumental) - 5:35

Sirenia

• Ailyn
  Ailyn
  Pilar Giménez García is a Spanish singer, known as Ailyn. She is the female vocalist of the gothic metal band Sirenia.-Musical start:...
  
   – female vocals (on all tracks)
• Morten Veland
  Morten Veland
  Morten Veland is a Norwegian musician. He was one of the founding members of the Norwegian gothic metal band Tristania and later founded Sirenia....
  
   – guitars, clean male vocals (on track #4), harsh vocals (on all tracks except #2 & #7), bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , programming, drums

Additional musicians

• Jan Kenneth Barkved – clean male vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   (on track #9)
• Stephanie Valentin – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
   (on tracks #3, #7, #8 & #9)
• Damien Surian, Mathieu Landry, Emmanuelle Zoldan, Sandrine Gouttebe], Emilie Lesbros – choir
  Choir
  A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
  
   (on all tracks)

Production

• Arranged, produced and engineered by Morten Veland
• Additional recording at Sound Suite Studios by Terje Refsnes
• Mixed by Morten Veland and Tue Madsen
• Mastered by Tue Madsen
  Tue Madsen
  Tue Madsen is a Danish music producer and sound engineer, who is well known in metal genre for his work with bands like The Haunted, Mnemic, Hatesphere, Ektomorf, Cataract, Exmortem, and Born from Pain. His first work as a producer was the album Embraced by the Absolute by Autumn Leaves in 1997...
  
  

External links

• The 13th Floor on The Metal Archives
  Encyclopaedia Metallum
  Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music...
  
  
• The 13th Floor at discogs.com