''Healing Through Fire'' is the sixth full-length album by British

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band

Orange Goblin Orange Goblin is a heavy metal band from London, England. Formed in 1995, the band's lineup currently consists of singer Ben Ward, guitarist Joe Hoare, drummer Chris Turner, and bassist Harry Armstrong. History Orange Goblin was originally f ...

, released in 2007. This is their first album released on

Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and is as of 2013 a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management solely for reissues. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest m ...

, and their first not to be released by

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. Ben Ward said of the album:

"It's not a concept album at all, but we are using the theme of the
Great Plague The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causi ...
of London and the Great Fire that followed for a lot of lyrical and musical influence. It's definitely the strongest material we have written".

A limited number of copies came with a bonus DVD. The DVD features a live set recorded at The Mean Fiddler in London on 16 December 2006 and also includes some interviews and studio footage.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Orange Goblin (Ben Ward, Joe Hoare, Martyn Millard, Chris Turner). # "The Ballad of Solomon Eagle" – 5:18 # "Vagrant Stomp" – 4:10 # "The Ale House Braves" – 3:50 # "Cities of Frost" 5:35 # "Hot Knives and Open Sores" – 4:22 # "Hounds Ditch" – 5:30 # "Mortlake (Dead Water)" 2:11 # "They Come Back (Harvest of Skulls)" – 4:44 # "Beginners Guide to Suicide" – 8:06

Live DVD

# "Some You Win, Some You Lose" # "Quincy the Pig Boy" # "Getting High on the Bad Times" # "The Ballad of Solomon Eagle" # "Hot Magic Red Planet" # "Round Up the Horses" # "They Come Back" # "Your World Will Hate This" # "Blue Snow" # "Scorpionica"

Personnel

Orange Goblin

*Ben Ward: vocals *Joe Hoare: guitars *Martyn Millard: bass *Chris Turner: drums Additional personnel *Jason Graham: keyboards Production *Produced, engineered and mixed by Mark Daghorn *Mastered by Andy Pearce

Trivia

The art for the audio disc incorporated the Latin phrase "Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur", written on the outer edge. This phrase is from the writings of

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

, a Roman orator, and can be translated as "The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious."

References

{{Authority control 2007 albums Orange Goblin albums Sanctuary Records albums