''Black Wings of Destiny'' is the second studio album by the

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band Dragonlord. Almost all of the previous album's thrash roots vanished, replaced with pure black metal. Peterson also began extending creative control to the rest of the band, instead of writing all the music himself for this album. This is also the first album where the band first appeared in photos wearing corpsepaint.

Track listing

#"The Becoming Of" – 1:18 (Eric Peterson, Derrick Ramirez) #"The Curse of Woe" – 5:39 (Peterson, Del James) #"Revelations" – 5:52 (Peterson, James, Ramirez, Lyle Livingston) #"Sins of Allegiance" – 6:48 (Peterson, James, Ramirez, Steve Smyth) #"Until the End" – 4:04 (Peterson, James, Livingston) #"Mark of Damnation" – 5:12 (Peterson, James, Livingston) #"Blood Voyeur" – 4:33 (Peterson, James, Livingston) #"Fallen" – 4:36 (Peterson, James, Smyth) #"Black Funeral" – 2:37 (

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cover) (Michael Denner,

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, Hank Sherman) #"Emerald" – 3:49 (

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cover) (Brian Downey, Brian Robertson,

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)

Personnel

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- vocals, guitars *

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- guitars *Derrick Ramirez - bass *Lyle Livingston - keyboards *Jon Allen - drums {{Authority control Dragonlord (band) albums 2005 albums