''Light of Day, Day of Darkness'' is the second (one-track) studio album by the

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band,

Green Carnation Green Carnation is a Norwegian progressive metal band from Kristiansand, formed in 1990. Green Carnation's trend of music has continuously changed on every release one by one; from straight forward death metal in their demo, to death-doom, then ...

. Originally, it was released by German record label

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in November 2001.

Background

The album was composed, written and arranged by founding member Terje Vik Schei (a.k.a. Tchort). It is composed of a single 60-minute track and was largely inspired by the death of Tchort's daughter and dedicated to his son, Damien Aleksander, whose baby voice appears a few moments in the song. It is said that 600 different samples were used in the editing of the song.

Musical style

Musically, ''Light of Day, Day of Darkness'' is pure

. In this album, the band combines many different instruments, not commonly used in

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, to create an original soundscape. The album shows some

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 ...

twinges from their roots with Roger Rasmussen /

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drafted in to perform

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s and Anders Kobro implementing occasional

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s as well.

Track listing

Personnel

Green Carnation * Terje Vik Schei (Tchort) − acoustic guitar, electric guitar * Bjørn Harstad − lead guitar,

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* Stein Roger Sordal − bass guitar *

Anders Kobro Anders Kobro is a Norwegian drummer who played in the bands In the Woods... and Green Carnation. He was also playing for Carpathian Forest Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1992. Histo ...

− drums *

Kjetil Nordhus Kjetil Nordhus (born 31 May 1975 in Kristiansand, Vest Agder) is a Norwegian singer, composer and music producer who is currently the vocalist in Green Carnation and Nightshadows Lament. Music Nordhus has been a singer and composer in a number of ...

− vocals Guest musicians and singers *Endre Kirkesola − B3,

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, voice arrangements, additional bass *Bernt A. Moen − string arrangements *Arvid Thorsen −

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*Synne Soprana −

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*Roger Rasmussen − screaming vocals *Damien Aleksander − child's voice *Jan Kenneth T. − male vocals Children's Choir performed by: *Randesund Barnekor *Marthe Larsen *Julie Pettersen *Mathias Pettersen *Kristoffer Knoff Aamot *Karoline Knoff Aamot *Ida Margrethe Karterud *Thomas Karterud *Simen Ingebrethsen *Christian Albert *Even Albert *Stian Andre Rosenlov *Elin Wikstol − Conductor Opera Choir performed by: *Kjetil Nordhus (

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

) *Roald Andreas Sandoy (tenor) *Katinka Sandoy (

alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruses by ...

) *Maren Stakkeland (alto) *Elise Tverrli (alto) *Nina Tanggaard (

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) *Therese Fanebust (soprano) *Endre Kirkesola (

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) Strings by: *Endre Kirkesola *Bernt A. Moen

Production

*Produced & Engineered By Endre Kirkesola *Mastered By Audun Strype

Notes

External links

Official band website
(now offline) {{Authority control 2001 albums Green Carnation albums The End Records albums