''Nightmares Made Flesh'' is the second album by Swedish

death metal Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, feat ...

band Bloodbath. It was released by

Century Media Records Century Media Records is a heavy metal record label with offices in the United States, Germany and London. In August 2015, Century Media was acquired by Sony Music for US$17 million. Background Century Media was founded by Robert Kampf and Oli ...

on September 27, 2004. It was the band's only album to feature Peter Tägtgren on vocals (who was brought in to replace Mikael Åkerfeldt at the time), as well as the first to feature

Opeth Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal/rock band from Stockholm, formed in 1990 by lead vocalist David Isberg. The group has been through several personnel changes, including the replacement of every original member; notably Isberg in 1992. Mikael ...

drummer

Martin Axenrot Erik Martin "Axe" Axenrot (born 5 March 1979 in Linköping, Sweden) is a Swedish death metal drummer, best known as the former drummer for progressive death metal band Opeth from 2006 to 2021. Since 2004, he is the drummer for Bloodbath. Known f ...

to replace

Dan Swanö Dan-Erland Swanö (born 10 March 1973), also known as Dan "The Man" Swanö, is a Swedish musician and record producer who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and ...

as the drummer (with Swanö now playing guitar). This was Swanö's last album with Bloodbath. The song "The Ascension" appeared on the two-part episode of '' Viva La Bam'' when the Margeras go to Europe.

Reception

Track listing

Credits

Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Personnel

Bloodbath

* Peter Tägtgren –

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* Anders Nyström – guitar,

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, backing vocals *

– guitar, bass, backing vocals *

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– guitar, bass, backing vocals *

–

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Session musician

* Simon Solomon (ex- Witchcraft) – lead guitar

Production

* Jens Bogren – production, engineering * Bloodbath – production, engineering * Henrik Jonsson – mastering

Visual art

* Agni Kastner – art direction, design * Andreas Hylthén – photography * Wes Benscoter –

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Studios

* Fascination Street, Örebro, Sweden – recording, mixing (May 2004) * Masters of Audio,

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, Sweden – mastering

References

External links

*
''Nightmares Made Flesh''
at Century Media {{Authority control 2004 albums Albums produced by Jens Bogren Albums with cover art by Wes Benscoter Bloodbath albums Century Media Records albums