''Emerald Forest and the Blackbird'' is the fifth studio album by Finnish

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doom metal band Swallow the Sun. The album was released February 1, 2012, by

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. It was also released on limited LP on both green and white vinyl by Svart Records. The ''Horror Series'' concludes from this album, also being on '' The Morning Never Came'', '' Hope'' & '' New Moon''. On January 3, 2012, a music video for the track "Cathedral Walls" was released by the band. The song features guest vocals by former Nightwish vocalist

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. The band made the entire album available for streaming on the Finnish metal magazine Inferno's website, from January 25 until its release a week later on February 1."Inferno tarjoaa: kuuntele uusi Swallow the Sun -levy!"
Inferno. January 25, 2012. Retrieved on January 25, 2012. This is the last release with

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, as he would quit to work with Nightwish two years later. The song "April 14th" is a memorial to

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who died on that day in 2010.

Track listing

Personnel

*Mikko Kotamäki - vocals *Markus Jämsen - guitar *Juha Raivio - guitar *Aleksi Munter - keyboards *Matti Honkonen - bass guitar *

- drums

Guests

Aleah Stanbridge Aleah Liane Stanbridge (born Julia Liane Stanbridge; 1 July 1976 – 18 April 2016), better known mononymously as Aleah, or Aleah Starbridge, was a South African singer-songwriter based in Örebro, Sweden where she lived until her death. In 200 ...

– vocals on tracks 1 and 7 *

– vocals on track 4

References

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