''Carpathian Tragedies'' is the second solo studio album by Italian

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vocalist

Lord Vampyr Alessandro Nunziati (born 16 September 1972), better known by his stage name Lord Vampyr, is an Italian musician, record producer and writer, famous for being the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires, as well as one of i ...

. It was released on 3 February 2009 through Zero Effect Records. This would be the last album on which Lord Vampyr would play

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; in the following album, ''

Horror Masterpiece ''Horror Masterpiece'' is the third studio album by Italian extreme metal vocalist Lord Vampyr, released on 25 March 2010. Beginning with this album, Lord Vampyr abandoned the symphonic black metal style of his previous two releases, shifting to ...

'', he would shift to an

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direction.

Track listing

Personnel

(Alessandro Nunziati) — vocals * Aeternus (Diego Tasciotti) — drums * Endymion (Riccardo Studer) — keyboards * Aerioch (Andrea di Nino) — bass * Seth 666 (Andrea Taddei) — guitars * Lady Eter — female backing vocals ;Guest musicians * Yog Sothoth — saxophone ;Miscellaneous staff * Chiara Battistoni — artwork * Stefano Morabito — production * Piergiovanni Lattanzi — photography

External links

Lord Vampyr's official website
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