Dark Assault
Dark Assault is the third studio album by the German power metal band Iron Savior. It continues the science fiction story that the band introduced on their debut album Iron Savior and continued on Unification and the Interlude EP.[1] It is the first album to feature guitarist Joachim Küstner and the last to feature Kai Hansen before committing himself back to his band Gamma Ray.
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| Released | 6 March 2001 | |||
| Recorded | July – October 2000 at Powerhouse Studio and Hansen Studio, Hamburg, Germany | |||
| Genre | Power metal, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 61:20 | |||
| Label | Noise | |||
| Producer | Piet Sielck, Kai Hansen, Iron Savior | |||
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Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Never Say Die" | Piet Sielck | Sielck | 5:32 |
| 2. | "Seek and Destroy" | Sielck | Sielck | 3:45 |
| 3. | "Solar Wings" | Sielck, Kai Hansen | Sielck, Hansen | 4:33 |
| 4. | "I've Been to Hell" | Sielck | Sielck, Jan-Sören Eckert | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Dragons Rising" | Sielck | Sielck | 6:24 |
| 6. | "Predators" | Sielck | Sielck | 3:54 |
| 7. | "Made of Metal" | Sielck | Sielck | 6:57 |
| 8. | "Firing the Guns" | Sielck | Sielck, Eckert | 4:42 |
| 9. | "Eye of the World" | Sielck | Sielck | 5:18 |
| 10. | "Back into the Light" | Sielck | Sielck | 5:51 |
| 11. | "After the War" | Sielck, Eckert | Sielck, Eckert | 6:18 |
| 12. | "Delivering the Goods" (Judas Priest cover) | Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, K.K. Downing | Tipton, Halford, Downing | 3:59 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 13. | "Headhunter" (Krokus cover) | Butch Stone, Chris von Rohr, Fernando von Arb, Marc Storace | Stone, von Rohr, von Arb, Storace | 4:18 |
| 14. | "The Hellion / Electric Eye" (Judas Priest cover) | Tipton, Halford, Downing | Tipton, Halford, Downing | 4:18 |
Personnel
- Iron Savior
- Piet Sielck – lead vocals, guitar
- Kai Hansen – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Solar Wings"
- Joachim "Piesel" Küstner – guitar, backing vocals
- Andreas Kück – keyboards, backing vocals
- Jan-Sören Eckert – bass, backing vocals, additional lead vocals on "After the War"
- Thomas Nack – drums and percussion
- Production
- Piet Sielck – producer, engineer, mixing
- Kai Hansen – additional production on "Solar Wings", vocal production on "Made of Metal" and "Back into the Light"
- Iron Savior – additional production
- Holger Drees – artwork
- Maren Kumpe – booklet design
- Jo Kirchherr – photography
References
- Sielck, Piet (2001). Dark Assault (booklet). Iron Savior. California: Noise Records USA, a division of Modern Music Records GmbH.
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