''Greying'' is the fourth full-length
album
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released by
The Banner on Good Fight Music on December 9, 2014. The album was the band's first in six years and is distinct from their past releases for its use of
post-punk
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and stronger influences of
industrial metal and
Gothic metal than what was found on their previous albums, with CVLT Nation describing ''Greying'' as a "spastic dance between the calculated and chaotic, branding it as The Banner’s most unique collection to date." The track "She Upon the Black Wolf" features guest vocals by
Gallows
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vocalist
Wade MacNeil
Wade MacNeil (born May 5, 1984) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire.
He is also the vocalist of the hardcore punk band Gallows, and the vocalist/guitarist/founder ...
.
Track listing
#The Dying of the Light - 6:01
#Circle of Salt - 2:24
#Crippling Despair - 2:32
#Sunlight - 5:24
#Unbaptized - 2:07
#A Quiet Corner - 2:34
#Send Me Down - 4:30
#VII - 2:34
#She Upon the Black Wolf - 2:52
#Bones to Dust - 4:50
#Sunset - 4:59
External links
The Banner page on Good Fight Music
2014 albums
The Banner (band) albums
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