''Attero Dominatus'' is the second studio album by Swedish heavy metal band

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, as well as the first to feature keyboardist Daniel Mÿhr. The album reached 16th place on the Swedish album charts, remaining in the listings for seven weeks. A video for the title track was shot in

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, Sweden, by

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' drummer Owe Lingvall. For the recording, the band wore camouflage gear, and singer

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donned a vest with metal plates, both features which came to be part of the band's regular stage gear from that point on. In 2010, the album was re-released on German label

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with five bonus tracks, under the title ''Attero Dominatus Re-Armed''.

Lyrics

As with the ''

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'' album, the lyrics on ''Attero Dominatus'' deals with different war subjects. "Nuclear Attack" deals with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "Rise of Evil" with the rise of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler. "We Burn" deals with the

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from the perspective of

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and other perpetrators of the massacre. The song "Back in Control" deals with the Falklands War. "In the Name of God" is about terrorism, especially religious terrorism.

Track listing

Personnel

– vocals * Rickard Sundén – guitars * Oskar Montelius – guitars *

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– bass * Daniel Mullback – drums * Daniel Mÿhr – keyboards * Christian Eriksson – backing vocals and screams on "Metal Crüe"

Release history

References

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