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Track listing

Personnel

Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes. ; Vader * Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek –

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lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, cover art, lyrics * Krzysztof "Docent" Raczkowski –

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*Jacek "Jackie" Kalisz – bass (credited but did not perform) ; Production *Władysław Iljaszewicz – sound engineering *Paweł Wasilewski – lyrics ; Note * Pro Studio, Olsztyn, Poland, February–March 1989

References

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