''Skywards – A Sylphe's Ascension'' is the second album by the

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band,

Fragments of Unbecoming Fragments of Unbecoming is a melodic death metal band from Laudenbach, Germany. The band's guitarist Sascha Ehrich is also a renowned artist in the metal world, having designed album covers for bands such as Necrophagist. The band's name was tak ...

. ''Skywards'' was the first album released under their new label

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on February 10,

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. The album artwork is dedicated to Anna-Lena. The European release is sold with an extra cardboard-box and the booklet and inlay are a five-color-print.

Album quote

Track list

# "Up From the Blackest of Soil scension Theme − 1:25 # "The Seventh Sunray Enlights My Pathway" − 5:07 # "Shapes of the Pursuers" − 5:07 # "Skywards , A Sylphe's Ascension" − 5:37 # "Mesmerized" − 0:43 # "Entangled Whispers in the Depth" − 4:49 # "Scattered to the Four Winds" − 4:09 # "On a Scar's Edge to Infinity" − 3:57 # "Lour Pulse" − 1:44 # "Fear My Hatred" − 3:36 # "Insane Chaosphere" − 4:41 # "Life's Last Embers arewell Theme − 0:38

Credits

Band

* Stefan Weimar –

Death Vocals A death growl, or simply growl, is an extended vocal technique usually employed in extreme styles of music, particularly in death metal and other extreme subgenres of heavy metal music. Death growl vocals are sometimes criticized for their ...

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Sascha Ehrich – Guitar,

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* Wolle Schellenberg –

* Ingo Maier –

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Production and other

* Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered in autumn 2003 by Stefan Hanbuch and

. * All lyrics and musical arrangements by Fragments of Unbecoming. * Band photography by Bernd Siebold. * Cover artwork "Skywards", booklet design and Fragments of Unbecoming logotype by Sascha Ehrich. {{DEFAULTSORT:Skywards - A Sylphe's Ascension Fragments of Unbecoming albums 2004 albums